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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/9] ext4: Add -DDEBUG to Makefile
On 03/18/2012 09:39 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:03:57AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
>>
>> In many other susbsystems/drivers, the definition of DEBUG is gated
>> by a separate Kconfig symbol used to select debugging just for that
>> susbsystem/driver (see CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG for example).
>
> In ext4 we have many different debugging patches, and in general you'd
> never want to enable them all at once (you'd get way too much noise).
> The debugging statements are there when a developer is debugging very
> specific section of code (i.e., the directory index, or the extent
> tree, or the block allocator, etc.). It's really only ext4 developers
> who need to use those debugging statements, and even for them it's
> quite rare.
>
> So I've never considered it worthwhile to enable them via a CONFIG_*
> menu item; developers who are debugging a specific problem will
> generally just drop in the specific #define on an ad hoc basis, and
> that works fine.
>

If you want to unconditionally define DEBUG for all of ext4, that is
fine with me.

I was just noting that it seemed a little odd to me, and different from
what is done elsewhere.

Thanks,
David Daney


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