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authorAndreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>2007-03-27 15:21:33 -0600
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>2007-05-02 20:58:09 +0200
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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>
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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.