On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 03:45:08PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> >On 8/12/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 07:39:33 +0000 Dave Young wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I have tried the "slow down printk" , and I have two questions.
> > >
> > > 1. why it depends the DEBUG_KERNEL? Sometimes we only need boot_delay
> > > to see the printk infomations. How about set it as a standalone
> > > config option?
> >
> > Is depending on DEBUG_KERNEL a problem? If so, why?
>
> IMHO, the DEBUG_KERNEL will build a big kernel and the building time
> is long, so if the we only want to look at the boot messages at panic
> point, the DEBUG_KERNEL is not needed.
Only if you enable other debug options too. (Yes, some default to on,
perhaps they shouldn't).
DEBUG_KERNEL itself shouldn't make any difference to the generated
code at all.
Dave
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