linux-kernel - Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable

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Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:09:56 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:06:16AM +0200, 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 <davej@...hat.com>
 >  
 > Nice one, shouldn't we get rid of the DEBUG_RODATA config and enable
 > it unconditionally ?

I personally have no objection, but others might.
follow-up patch rather than including it in this maybe?

	Dave

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