From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
yamada.masahiro@socionext.com,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq: move debugfs option to kernel hacking
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 18:10:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190901101032.7pysfrpincyrci35@mail.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1909010814360.3955@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 08:23:02AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, Changbin Du wrote:
>
> > Just like the other generic debug options, move the irq one to
> > 'Kernel hacking' menu.
>
> Why?
>
> Kernel hacking is a inscrutable mess where you can waste a lot of time to
> find what you are looking for.
>
yes, the 'kernel hacking' menu has many items now and are not well structured.
Let me see if it can be improved.
> If I want to debug interrupts then having the option right there where all
> other interrupt related configuration is makes tons of sense.
>
> I would be less opposed to this when the kernel hacking menu would be
> halfways well structured, but you just chose another random place for that
> option which is worse than what we have now.
>
We already have an irq debug option CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ here. Maybe we can group
them into a submenu.
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
>
>
--
Cheers,
Changbin Du
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-01 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-01 3:55 Changbin Du
2019-09-01 6:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-01 10:10 ` Changbin Du [this message]
2019-09-01 10:49 ` Marc Zyngier
2019-09-04 0:50 ` Changbin Du
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