Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:07:17 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] more helpful WARN_ON and BUG_ON messages
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 04:56:37PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > Who really needs this considering it implies a size increase of the 
> > kernel image?
> > 
> > Using a kernel tree so unusual that you can't locate the source anymore 
> > sounds like an extremely rare and unintelligent situation, not something 
> > that must be handled.
> 
> Most debugging code makes the kernel bigger, slower... and easier to
> debug, no?
> 
> It's not a question of not being -able- to locate sources; it's a
> question of being able to look at a bug report and triage it quickly
> without digging around to find the kernel du jour that produced it.  *shrug*

It's not that BUGs were that frequent.

And with your suggestion "I suppose this could be put under CONFIG_DEBUG", 
it would anyway be turned off by nearly everyone.

> -Eric

cu
Adrian

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