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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman•id.au>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs•helsinki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, openib-general@openib•org,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, "Christoph Raisch" <RAISCH@de•ibm.com>,
	"Hoang-Nam Nguyen" <HNGUYEN@de•ibm.com>,
	"Marcus Eder" <MEDER@de•ibm.com>,
	"Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim•fh-wedel.de>
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 04/16] ehca: userspace support
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:11:32 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146208292.6307.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020604272332s6101032cy6936096230f3637c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 09:32 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> On 4/28/06, Heiko J Schick <info@schihei•de> wrote:
> > The problem I see with pr_debug() is that it could only activated via
> > a compile flag. To use the debug outputs you have to re-compile /
> > compile your own kernel.
> 
> Do you really need this heavy debug logging in the first place? You
> can use kprobes for arbitrary run-time inspection anyway, so logging
> everything seems wasteful.

Yeah, I really don't think you want to be running with that kind of
debugging gunk in a production kernel. Is someone who can't build their
own kernel really going to be able to make sense of the output?

cheers

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Michael Ellerman
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-28  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27 10:48 [PATCH 04/16] ehca: userspace support Heiko J Schick
2006-04-27 11:43 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-27 22:36   ` Michael Ellerman
2006-04-28  6:11     ` [openib-general] " Heiko J Schick
2006-04-28  6:32       ` Pekka Enberg
2006-04-28  7:11         ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2006-04-29  6:38         ` Heiko J Schick
2006-04-29  7:08           ` Heiko Carstens

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