On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:30:17PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > I fear so, sadly. I think DIAGNOSTIC should be back in x86 GENERIC > kernels on HEAD (this can be switched off in release branches)
Contrary, I think every viable debug option (DIAGNOSTIC + LOCKDEBUG at least) should be enabled in HEAD, but disabled in release kernels. An easy way to catch obvious regression that should never enter a release kernel. The so-called HEAD is the main development branch, after all... - Jukka.