[ 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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