Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Me, I'd like to say I want "default firewall built in", and not have 
> to see *any* of the crap. And that's exactly why "select" is a good 
> thing.

yeah. For a long time i wanted to do something like that for all the 
kernel debugging options, to by default only offer a simple menu of:

 ( ) Debug Disabled
 (*) Transparent Low-Overhead Debugging
 ( ) Transparent Medium-Overhead Debugging
 ( ) Transparent High-Overhead Debugging
 ( ) Custom Debugging

so say softlockup-detect or spinlock-sleep checks would be enabled by 
Low-Overhead Debugging, but slab-debug or lockdep would only be enabled 
by the High-Overhead Debugging option.

and all the zillions of debug options would only show up if "Custom 
Debugging" is selected. Plus this would have the advantage that if we 
add a new debug option, and the tester already has a .config with say 
"Transparent Low-Overhead Debugging" enabled - Kconfig would pick the 
right value for that new debug option. This would remove the need and 
desire to 'default y' certain debugging features to get them tested ...

	Ingo
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