Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:11:38 +0530 | From | "Satyam Sharma" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it |
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[ Just cleaning up my inbox, and stumbled across this thread ... ]
On 5/31/07, clameter@sgi.com <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > Introduce CONFIG_STABLE to control checks only useful for development. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> > [...] > menu "General setup" > > +config STABLE > + bool "Stable kernel" > + help > + If the kernel is configured to be a stable kernel then various > + checks that are only of interest to kernel development will be > + omitted. > +
"A programmer who uses assertions during testing and turns them off during production is like a sailor who wears a life vest while drilling on shore and takes it off at sea." - Tony Hoare
Probably you meant to turn off debug _output_ (and not _checks_) with this config option? But we already have CONFIG_FOO_DEBUG_BAR for those situations ...
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