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| author | Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> | 2012-11-15 08:07:59 -0600 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-11-20 14:05:22 -0500 |
| commit | f5c4f10852d42012c6a7a793c15bf18882e61da0 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ceb09d5451e7c701472ca39f36bff97dc25170a /drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig | |
| parent | 75be3e24eeedbc9ec5faf3483fe9b449abec94e8 (diff) | |
brcm80211: Allow trace support to be enabled separately from debug
Since the runtime overhead of trace support is small when tracing is
disabled, users may be interested in turning on trace support while
leaving other debug features off. Add a new config option named
CONFIG_BRCM_TRACING for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig index b480088b3db..1d92d874ebb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/Kconfig @@ -55,6 +55,17 @@ config BRCMFMAC_USB IEEE802.11n embedded FullMAC WLAN driver. Say Y if you want to use the driver for an USB wireless card. +config BRCM_TRACING + bool "Broadcom device tracing" + depends on BRCMSMAC || BRCMFMAC + ---help--- + If you say Y here, the Broadcom wireless drivers will register + with ftrace to dump event information into the trace ringbuffer. + Tracing can be enabled at runtime to aid in debugging wireless + issues. This option adds a small amount of overhead when tracing + is disabled. If unsure, say Y to allow developers to better help + you when wireless problems occur. + config BRCMDBG bool "Broadcom driver debug functions" depends on BRCMSMAC || BRCMFMAC |