On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:56:37PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > Who really needs this considering it implies a size increase of the
> > kernel image?
> >
> > Using a kernel tree so unusual that you can't locate the source anymore
> > sounds like an extremely rare and unintelligent situation, not something
> > that must be handled.
>
> Most debugging code makes the kernel bigger, slower... and easier to
> debug, no?
>
> It's not a question of not being -able- to locate sources; it's a
> question of being able to look at a bug report and triage it quickly
> without digging around to find the kernel du jour that produced it. *shrug*
It's not that BUGs were that frequent.
And with your suggestion "I suppose this could be put under CONFIG_DEBUG",
it would anyway be turned off by nearly everyone.
> -Eric
cu
Adrian
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