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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fault injection: split up stacktrace filter Kconfig option
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:59:09AM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
> Commit: 1df49008f4ddec9d4f6862b47ea5bdba82078aa4
> Parent: 94412a96c4553255bda7a232a349059dd7543338
> Author: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue Feb 20 13:57:56 2007 -0800
> Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
> CommitDate: Tue Feb 20 17:10:14 2007 -0800
>
> [PATCH] fault injection: split up stacktrace filter Kconfig option
>
> There is no prompt for CONFIG_STACKTRACE, so FAULT_INJECTION cannot be
> selected without LOCKDEP enabled. (found by Paolo 'Blaisorblade'
> Giarrusso)
>
> In order to fix such broken Kconfig dependency, this patch splits up the
> stacktrace filter support for fault injection by new Kconfig option, which
> enables to use fault injection on the architecture which doesn't have
> general stacktrace support.

...

> +config FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER
> + bool "stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities"
> + depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
> + select STACKTRACE
> + select FRAME_POINTER
> + help
> + Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities

This help text is pretty useless. It tells the person configuring
nothing about what a stacktrace filter is, or why it might be useful.
helptexts that just parrot the name of the option might as well not be there.

Dave

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