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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] clarify CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO help text
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:21:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070327212133.GA22409@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)

The following patch adds some extra clarification to the CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
Kconfig help text.  The current text is mostly a recursive definition and
doesn't really say much of anything.  When I first read this I thought it
was going to enable extra verbosity in debug messages or something, but it
is only enabling the "gcc -g" compile option in the Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>

--- ./lib/Kconfig.debug.orig	2007-02-07 17:10:34.000000000 -0700
+++ ./lib/Kconfig.debug	2007-03-27 13:32:17.000000000 -0600
@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@
 	help
           If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will include
 	  debugging info resulting in a larger kernel image.
+	  This adds debug symbols to the kernel and modules (gcc -g), and
+	  is needed if you intend to use kernel crashdump or binary object
+	  tools like crash, kgdb, LKCD, gdb, etc on the kernel.
 	  Say Y here only if you plan to debug the kernel.
 
 	  If unsure, say N.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.


             reply	other threads:[~2007-03-27 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27 21:21 Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-03-28 17:03 ` Sam Ravnborg

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