[ On Friday, May 18, 2001 at 12:13:15 (-0400), John Hawkinson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Reverting the PCMCIADEBUG removal?
>
> jchacon@genuity.net <jchacon@genuity.net> wrote on Fri, 18 May 2001
> at 11:58:17 -0400 in <200105181558.LAA08374@dragon.tools.gtei.net>:
> 
> > So we should promote an inconsistant interface on *DEBUG's?
> 
> Essentially -- yes. We have never had such a consistent interface,
> and we should be loathe to carefully consider the consequences of
> forcing one.

Maybe it would be better if the informational features were turned on by
a set of defines with a different naming convention.

There are already a number of *VERBOSE flags, and in my experience only
a very few of them cause too much output, or also impact performance.

Maybe those *VERBOSE flags that cause problems for normal use should be
renamed *DEBUG, and those *DEBUG flags that are useful and normally
non-intrusive information should be renamed *VERBOSE.

Then in a "GENERIC" kernel all *VERBOSE things should be turned on and
*DEBUG things turned off.  A "DEBUG" kernel would have both on.  An
"INSTALL" kernel might be somewhere in the middle, and a "GENERIC_SMALL"
kernel would have none of it.

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