Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 May 2007 11:03:56 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it |
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>> menu "General setup" >> >> +config STABLE >> + bool "Stable kernel" [...] > a) Why in Kconfig, why not in Makefile? > > b) Of course nobody wants STABLE=n. :-) How about: > > config RELEASE > bool "Build for release" > help > If the kernel is declared as a release build here, then > various checks that are only of interest to kernel development > will be omitted.
PS: Also, it could be reversed (e.g. config TESTBUILD) and put into the Kernel Hacking submenu.
> c) A drawback of this general option is, it's hard to tell what will be > omitted in particular.
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