From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: clameter@sgi.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:03:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465E8F7C.7080300@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465E8D4C.9040506@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
>> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 0:20 [RFC 0/4] CONFIG_STABLE to switch off development checks clameter
2007-05-31 0:20 ` [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it clameter
2007-05-31 0:35 ` young dave
2007-05-31 0:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-01 18:08 ` Dave Jones
2007-06-01 18:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 8:54 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-31 9:03 ` David Miller, Stefan Richter
2007-05-31 9:03 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-05-31 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-31 21:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-31 21:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-01 18:02 ` Dave Jones
2007-06-01 20:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-01 20:30 ` Dave Jones
2007-06-01 20:55 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-01 20:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-20 10:41 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-07-20 11:09 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-20 11:27 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-07-20 11:34 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-20 11:40 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-07-20 11:50 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-20 16:48 ` Stefan Richter
2007-07-20 16:28 ` Stefan Richter
2007-07-20 16:36 ` Stefan Richter
2007-07-20 19:09 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-31 0:20 ` [RFC 2/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Switch off kmalloc(0) tests in slab allocators clameter
2007-05-31 19:51 ` Zach Brown
2007-05-31 22:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-31 0:20 ` [RFC 3/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Switch off SLUB banner clameter
2007-05-31 0:20 ` [RFC 4/4] CONFIG_STABLE: SLUB: Prefer object corruption over failure clameter
2007-06-01 14:55 ` [RFC 0/4] CONFIG_STABLE to switch off development checks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 18:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-01 18:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 20:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-01 21:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 15:23 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-06-02 16:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-04 1:03 ` Dave Kleikamp
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