Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Enable CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG by default

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On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/15/2025 4:27 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG can be helpful for getting debug messages on OEM
> > systems to identify a BIOS bug.  It's a relatively small size increase
> > to turn it on by default (50kb) and that saves asking people to enable
> > it when an issue comes up because it wasn't in defconfig.
> >
> > Enable it by default.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
>
> Rafael,
>
> Any thoughts on this?  Especially in seeing Ingo trying to modernize
> more of the defconfig [1]?
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250505110946.1095363-1-mingo@xxxxxxxxxx/#t

I'm not sure if this is a good idea TBH.

The risk is that people will start reporting issues that have been
there already, but now they become visible due to enabling ACPI_DEBUG
by default.

> > ---
> >   drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 1 +
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> > index 7f10aa38269d2..cb190686499b9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> > @@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ config ACPI_TABLE_OVERRIDE_VIA_BUILTIN_INITRD
> >
> >   config ACPI_DEBUG
> >       bool "Debug Statements"
> > +     default y
> >       help
> >         The ACPI subsystem can produce debug output.  Saying Y enables this
> >         output and increases the kernel size by around 50K.
>





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