Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Jul 15 2010 - 18:10:21 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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