From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751299AbWHQFUf (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:20:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751297AbWHQFUf (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:20:35 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:11958 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751299AbWHQFUe (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:20:34 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH 3/3] PM: Remove PM_TRACE from Kconfig Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:24:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Pavel Machek , Linux PM , LKML References: <200608151509.06087.rjw@sisk.pl> <200608161314.11128.rjw@sisk.pl> <20060817044011.GB14127@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060817044011.GB14127@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608170724.23968.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 17 August 2006 06:40, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:14:11PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Remove the CONFIG_PM_TRACE option, which is dangerous and should only be used > > by people who know exactly what they are doing, from Kconfig. > > No, don't remove this, that's not acceptable at all. This is useful for > others (and one specifically who will be pissed to see this removed...) Well, this was a Pavel's idea. ;-) However, it does some harm to users. I was hit by it personally and there's been at least one report related to it on LKML recently. Still I think we can just mark it as dangerous or something like that, which was my initial idea. Greetings, Rafael -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller