From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] random: silence compiler warnings
 and fix race
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:09:06 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> How about doing this:
>
>    default DEBUG_KERNEL
>
> Most distro kernel select DEBUG_KERNEL because it unhides a bunch of
> other useful configs. Since it doesn't strictly _depend_ on
> DEBUG_KERNEL, I think it's probably a mistake to enforce a false
> dependency. Using it as a hint for the default seems maybe like a good
> middle ground. (And if people can't agree on that, then I guess
> "default n"...)

I didn't know you could do that with Kconfig. Great idea. I'll make
this change and submit a new patch to Ted.

Jason