On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 10:48:21AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:43:48 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And your approach could easily result in code paths never tested in > > -mm or -rc kernels exploding in the actual release. > > yep, we need to ensure that DEVELKERNEL gets turned off a few weeks > before final release.
I'm not very keen on this whole idea. It's a fairly well-known phenomenon that behavior can change for the worse when you turn off debug flags for a variety of reasons. So instituting a monoculture where -everyone- has a global debug flag on then turns it off is a little worrisome. When we're talking about a single warning, it's probably not a big deal, but once we expand the usage to cover a dozen or a hundred things, the odds that we'll hide a race or side-effect somewhere increase. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
