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

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Message-ID: <20100715205304.7a53aa02@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:53:04 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:06:16 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> 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'd go one step further; enable unconditional, and have the config
option control if you can turn it off or not...
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