From: Adrian Bunk Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:51 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] let MAGIC_SYSRQ no longer depend on DEBUG_KERNEL X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc1~476 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f346f4b373aa320fb0337a3b504e3fb5344abc0b;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] let MAGIC_SYSRQ no longer depend on DEBUG_KERNEL I know several people using MAGIC_SYSRQ not for kernel debugging but for trying to do a halfway normal shutdown in case of problems. Since there's no technical reason why MAGIC_SYSRQ would have to depend on DEBUG_KERNEL, I'm therefore suggesting to drop this dependency. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 1fcd856ede..a609235a51 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -9,15 +9,9 @@ config PRINTK_TIME in kernel startup. -config DEBUG_KERNEL - bool "Kernel debugging" - help - Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and - identify kernel problems. - config MAGIC_SYSRQ bool "Magic SysRq key" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !UML + depends on !UML help If you say Y here, you will have some control over the system even if the system crashes for example during kernel debugging (e.g., you @@ -29,6 +23,12 @@ config MAGIC_SYSRQ keys are documented in . Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does. +config DEBUG_KERNEL + bool "Kernel debugging" + help + Say Y here if you are developing drivers or trying to debug and + identify kernel problems. + config LOG_BUF_SHIFT int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)" if DEBUG_KERNEL range 12 21