Am Tue, 03 May 2011 16:11:11 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae <[email protected]>:
> On 03/05/11 15:26, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24043 > > > > Hi shall we enable it too? > > Thanks for your opinion. > > I am not very informed on kernel stuff so I could be wrong here... > > This seems a good idea for a what seems a minor(?) increase in > security, but at the expense of making debugging kernel issues more > difficult. I guess the people who want to attach gdb and debug the > kernel are probably building their own from upstream git anyway, so I > lean slightly on the side of enabling it. > > Allan > Generally I'm against adding more and more debugging stuff. This makes our kernel larger and slower. When users have a certain kernel issue they will need to rebuild and gitbisect custom kernels anyway where they can enable the required debug stuff. -Andy
