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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] init: Do not select DEBUG_KERNEL by default
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On 4/11/2019 6:21 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Proposed alternative plan: let's add a new symbol, something like
>> DEBUG_MISC ("Miscellaneous debug code that should be under a more
>> specific debug option but isn't"), make it depend on DEBUG_KERNEL and be
>> "default DEBUG_KERNEL" but allow itself to be turned off, and then
>> mechanically change the small handful of "#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL" to
>> "#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MISC".
>>
>> Does that sound like an appropriately rapid solution for this bug?
> Sure, that sounds fine to me. Sinan can you take care of that for v4?

Sure, let me work on this.