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, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
Introduce CONFIG_STABLE to control checks only useful for development.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
[...]
 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
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