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| author | Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> | 2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600 |
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| committer | Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 2007-05-02 20:58:09 +0200 |
| commit | b72e53f8bbbec8421316220291d8a8002a5562ba (patch) | |
| tree | 7ace95b1d8adbf8b80ac540e5d32eae702212971 /lib/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | c53aeca059c4d2108335810fba6ba89ab6a944dd (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b72e53f8bbbec8421316220291d8a8002a5562ba.tar.gz lwn-b72e53f8bbbec8421316220291d8a8002a5562ba.zip | |
kconfig.debug: clarify CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO help text
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>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 79afd00bbe5f..bdbf3fe14de6 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ config DEBUG_INFO 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. |