Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935586Ab0GPDtJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:49:09 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:50641 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935223Ab0GPDtE (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:49:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:53:04 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable Message-ID: <20100715205304.7a53aa02@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20100715210944.GA24961@redhat.com> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 24 On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:06:16 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Dave Jones wrote: > > > We had a request to disable DEBUG_RODATA in our kernel for > > debugging purposes. Turning it off completely seems a bit > > unfortunate for the minority case of people wanting to do > > debugging, so I came up with this patch to make it a boot-time > > 'disable_rodata' argument. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones > > Nice one, shouldn't we get rid of the DEBUG_RODATA config and enable > it unconditionally ? > I'd go one step further; enable unconditional, and have the config option control if you can turn it off or not... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/