Am 20.05.10 05:52, schrieb Paul Goyette: > From the comments in the GENERIC config files, the primary reason for > omitting the various xxxVERBOSE options is to avoid including large text > tables in the resulting kernel. And I vaguely recall some spirited > discussion back when the change was made to exclude these options by > default. > > Now that we have MODULAR kernels (at least on some architectures), I've > been wondering if it might make sense to create a mod_verbose that could > be loaded during start-up time and then unloaded after the machine is up > and running. (For plug-and-play situations, such as USB, the module > could be reloaded and unloaded whenever a new device is added.) > > Is this something that would be useful?
To my understanding most of the VERBOSE options are compile-time switches which are used to conditionally compile debug code using #ifdefs. I am not sure how such a module should work then, changing #ifdef'ed code into code that is always compiled, but only used under certain circumstances?
