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| author | Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> | 2009-01-25 17:49:59 +0300 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-01-30 00:01:47 +0300 |
| commit | 060210f938d8aa0b9d795588a2274cd67ba9d6a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 74eceabb2bb5b945862f49e567bf862d243ff13a /drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig | |
| parent | 08e87a833f5e77ff33b64c9ac27cb7fb9ecd4a48 (diff) | |
| download | linux-060210f938d8aa0b9d795588a2274cd67ba9d6a4.tar.xz | |
b43: Dynamically control log verbosity
Dynamically control the log verbosity with a module parameter.
This enables us to dynamically enable debugging messages (or disable
info, warn, error messages) via module parameter or /sys/module/b43/parameters/verbose.
This increases the module size by about 3k. But in practice it reduces the
module size for the user, because some distributions ship the b43 module
with CONFIG_B43_DEBUG set, which increases the module by about 15k.
So with this patch applied, distributions should really _disable_ CONFIG_B43_DEBUG.
There is no reason to keep it in a production-release kernel.
So we have a net reduction in size by about 12k.
This patch also adds a printk of the wireless core revision, so people
don't have to enable SSB debugging to get the wireless core revision.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig index 1f81d36f87c5..aab71a70ba78 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig @@ -110,10 +110,18 @@ config B43_DEBUG bool "Broadcom 43xx debugging" depends on B43 ---help--- - Broadcom 43xx debugging messages. + Broadcom 43xx debugging. - Say Y, if you want to find out why the driver does not - work for you. + This adds additional runtime sanity checks and statistics to the driver. + These checks and statistics might me expensive and hurt runtime performance + of your system. + This also adds the b43 debugfs interface. + + Do not enable this, unless you are debugging the driver. + + Say N, if you are a distributor or user building a release kernel + for production use. + Only say Y, if you are debugging a problem in the b43 driver sourcecode. config B43_FORCE_PIO bool "Force usage of PIO instead of DMA" |