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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:11:38 +0530
From: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
To: "clameter@sgi.com" <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it
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[ Just cleaning up my inbox, and stumbled across this thread ... ]


On 5/31/07, clameter@sgi.com <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Introduce CONFIG_STABLE to control checks only useful for development.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> [...]
>  menu "General setup"
>
> +config STABLE
> +       bool "Stable kernel"
> +       help
> +         If the kernel is configured to be a stable kernel then various
> +         checks that are only of interest to kernel development will be
> +         omitted.
> +


"A programmer who uses assertions during testing and turns them off
during production is like a sailor who wears a life vest while drilling
on shore and takes it off at sea."
                                                - Tony Hoare


Probably you meant to turn off debug _output_ (and not _checks_)
with this config option? But we already have CONFIG_FOO_DEBUG_BAR
for those situations ...

Satyam