Re: [PATCH] Kconfig.debug: combine Kconfig debug options

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 16:32:06 EST


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:55:39 +0200 (MEST) Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> | On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> | > . localizes the following symbols in lib/Kconfig.debug:
> | > DEBUG_KERNEL, MAGIC_SYSRQ, DEBUG_SLAB, DEBUG_SPINLOCK,
> | > DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP, DEBUG_HIGHMEM, DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE,
> | > DEBUG_INFO
> |
> | Which architecture does _not_ use DEBUG_KERNEL or DEBUG_SLAB? The list is quite
> | long... Aren't these generic?
>
> Looks like all of them use DEBUG_KERNEL.
>
> DEBUG_SLAB is not available in cris, h8300, m68knommu, sh, sh64,
> or v850 AFAICT. Yes/no ?

Probably someone just forgot to add them. DEBUG_SLAB is used in
arch-independent code only. So I guess it doesn't harm to allow DEBUG_SLAB for
all archs.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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