linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] configs/debug: set CONFIG_DEBUG

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Message-ID: <YidyCKCO4y4L6fF3@qian>
Date:   Tue, 8 Mar 2022 10:11:04 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@...cinc.com>
To:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configs/debug: set CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y properly

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 02:30:29PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> That is *not* an example of debug.config working correctly. It is an
> example that only works by accident because the arm64 defconfig already
> included CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y (that's why I explicitly disabled it in my
> example demonstrating the problem before I applied debug.config).
> 
> However debug.config is not specific to arm64 and, for v5.17-rc7 it is
> also not working with the defconfigs for (at least) arm, powerpc, riscv and
> x86 (both i386 and x86_64).
> 
> I'm still of the view that any change that removes CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
> cannot be sensibly applied to kernels that do not include Kees' patch.

Okay, good points. I'll make a patch for v5.17, so people don't need to
wait for a few weeks for flip DEBUG_INFO without Kees' patch then.