On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:44:41 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > the usage of the DEBUG_DRIVER preprocessor variable is a big > > confusing: > > > > $ $ grep -rw DEBUG_DRIVER * > > drivers/net/sunlance.c:#undef DEBUG_DRIVER > > drivers/net/a2065.c:#ifdef DEBUG_DRIVER > > drivers/net/a2065.c:#ifdef DEBUG_DRIVER > > drivers/net/7990.c:#ifdef DEBUG_DRIVER > > drivers/net/7990.c:#ifdef DEBUG_DRIVER > > drivers/base/Kconfig:config DEBUG_DRIVER > > ... > > > > it's clearly a configuration variable, but it's also being used by > > itself in a few drivers/net/ source files. is that deliberate? > > The ones in drivers/net/ are just local driver debug controls. > They happen to have the same name as a (likely newer) kconfig symbol. > > Is there a real problem that needs to be fixed?
nope, if they were deliberately named that way, and weren't meant to be associated with the Kconfig variable of that same name. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
