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SubjectRe: CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE needs a warning
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On 10/06/2016 08:56 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 04:53:20PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> On a whim, I decided to turn on CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE on
>> Fedora rawhide since it sounded harmless enough. It spewed warnings
>> and panicked some systems. Clearly it's doing its job
>> well of finding drivers that can't handle remove properly and I
>> underestimated it.
>
> Yes, we knew it was going to find bugs, you were brave :)
>

Sure, let's go with brave. That makes me sound good ;)

>> I was expecting to maybe find a driver or two.
>> Can we get stronger Kconfig text indicating that this shouldn't be
>> turned on lightly? I'll be turning the option off in Fedora but sending
>> out reports from what was found.
>
> Care to send a patch with the wording change you would have found better
> to warn yourself not to do this?
>

Sure.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

Thanks,
Laura

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