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authorBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>2008-11-07 18:58:05 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2008-11-07 21:45:29 -0500
commita0d84a92df43b7206b9c1330a2cccf109cf0a41a (patch)
treec21171f847cb316fccd610db8017fa3126b38656 /drivers/acpi
parent87b586088ef953c602680e5aff8ab83a2e299498 (diff)
ACPI: update debug parameter documentation
Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful examples. Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h). Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/Kconfig10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
index 90cb2a823b56..b0243fd55ac0 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
@@ -312,9 +312,13 @@ config ACPI_DEBUG
312 bool "Debug Statements" 312 bool "Debug Statements"
313 default n 313 default n
314 help 314 help
315 The ACPI driver can optionally report errors with a great deal 315 The ACPI subsystem can produce debug output. Saying Y enables this
316 of verbosity. Saying Y enables these statements. This will increase 316 output and increases the kernel size by around 50K.
317 your kernel size by around 50K. 317
318 Use the acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level kernel command-line
319 parameters documented in Documentation/acpi/debug.txt and
320 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to control the type and
321 amount of debug output.
318 322
319config ACPI_DEBUG_FUNC_TRACE 323config ACPI_DEBUG_FUNC_TRACE
320 bool "Additionally enable ACPI function tracing" 324 bool "Additionally enable ACPI function tracing"