From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 67so629957wri for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:11:38 +0530 From: "Satyam Sharma" Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it In-Reply-To: <20070531003012.302019683@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070531002047.702473071@sgi.com> <20070531003012.302019683@sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "clameter@sgi.com" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-ID: [ Just cleaning up my inbox, and stumbled across this thread ... ] On 5/31/07, clameter@sgi.com wrote: > Introduce CONFIG_STABLE to control checks only useful for development. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter > [...] > 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 ... Satyam -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org