Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:07:17 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] more helpful WARN_ON and BUG_ON messages |
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:56:37PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Who really needs this considering it implies a size increase of the > > kernel image? > > > > Using a kernel tree so unusual that you can't locate the source anymore > > sounds like an extremely rare and unintelligent situation, not something > > that must be handled. > > Most debugging code makes the kernel bigger, slower... and easier to > debug, no? > > It's not a question of not being -able- to locate sources; it's a > question of being able to look at a bug report and triage it quickly > without digging around to find the kernel du jour that produced it. *shrug*
It's not that BUGs were that frequent.
And with your suggestion "I suppose this could be put under CONFIG_DEBUG", it would anyway be turned off by nearly everyone.
> -Eric
cu Adrian
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