return rc;
 }
 
-enum { ecryptfs_opt_sig, ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_sig, ecryptfs_opt_debug,
-       ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_debug, ecryptfs_opt_cipher,
-       ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_cipher, ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_key_bytes,
+enum { ecryptfs_opt_sig, ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_sig,
+       ecryptfs_opt_cipher, ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_cipher,
+       ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_key_bytes,
        ecryptfs_opt_passthrough, ecryptfs_opt_xattr_metadata,
        ecryptfs_opt_encrypted_view, ecryptfs_opt_err };
 
 static match_table_t tokens = {
        {ecryptfs_opt_sig, "sig=%s"},
        {ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_sig, "ecryptfs_sig=%s"},
-       {ecryptfs_opt_debug, "debug=%u"},
-       {ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_debug, "ecryptfs_debug=%u"},
        {ecryptfs_opt_cipher, "cipher=%s"},
        {ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_cipher, "ecryptfs_cipher=%s"},
        {ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_key_bytes, "ecryptfs_key_bytes=%u"},
        substring_t args[MAX_OPT_ARGS];
        int token;
        char *sig_src;
-       char *debug_src;
        char *cipher_name_dst;
        char *cipher_name_src;
        char *cipher_key_bytes_src;
                        }
                        sig_set = 1;
                        break;
-               case ecryptfs_opt_debug:
-               case ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_debug:
-                       debug_src = args[0].from;
-                       ecryptfs_verbosity =
-                               (int)simple_strtol(debug_src, &debug_src,
-                                                  0);
-                       ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG,
-                                       "Verbosity set to [%d]" "\n",
-                                       ecryptfs_verbosity);
-                       break;
                case ecryptfs_opt_cipher:
                case ecryptfs_opt_ecryptfs_cipher:
                        cipher_name_src = args[0].from;
                       "rc = [%d]\n", rc);
                goto out_release_messaging;
        }
+       if (ecryptfs_verbosity > 0)
+               printk(KERN_CRIT "eCryptfs verbosity set to %d. Secret values "
+                       "will be written to the syslog!\n", ecryptfs_verbosity);
+
        goto out;
 out_release_messaging:
        ecryptfs_release_messaging(ecryptfs_transport);
 
        }
        mutex_unlock(&mount_crypt_stat->global_auth_tok_list_mutex);
 
-       /* Note this is global and probably shouldn't be a mount option */
-       if (ecryptfs_verbosity)
-               seq_printf(m, ",ecryptfs_debug=%d\n", ecryptfs_verbosity);
-
        seq_printf(m, ",ecryptfs_cipher=%s",
                mount_crypt_stat->global_default_cipher_name);