Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] ipw2100: remove by-hand function entry/exit debugging

From: Ingo Oeser <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:39:08 +0200

Hi Jeff,

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:51:21 -0400
> >
> >>NAK.  Rationale: maintainer's choice.  Pavel doesn't get to choose
> >>the debugger of choice for the driver maintainer.
> >
> > If it makes the driver unreadable and thus harder to maintain,
> > I think such changes should seriously be considered.
> >
> > Most of the DEBUG_INFO macro usage is fine, but those "enter"
> > and "exit" ones are just pure noise and should be removed.
>
> I find them useful in my own drivers; they are definitely not pure noise.

gcc -finstrument-functions

can do that completely without adding noise to the sources.

been there, done that. With a gcc-patch you don't even need to 
resolve symbols.

Regards

Ingo Oeser