Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 04/16] ehca: userspace support

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:11:32 +1000

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 09:32 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> On 4/28/06, Heiko J Schick <[email-masked]> 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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