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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:32:40 +0300
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Heiko J Schick" <info@schihei.de>
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 04/16] ehca: userspace support
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Hi Heiko,

On 4/28/06, Heiko J Schick <info@schihei.de> wrote:
> The problem I see with pr_debug() is that it could only activated via
> a compile flag. To use the debug outputs you have to re-compile /
> compile your own kernel.

Do you really need this heavy debug logging in the first place? You
can use kprobes for arbitrary run-time inspection anyway, so logging
everything seems wasteful.

                                             Pekka