Re: [PATCH] Clarify CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO's bloaty nature

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Feb 05 2014 - 00:46:26 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > config SAVE_TIME_AND_DISK_SPACE
> > bool "Faster and leaner build object files: compile without debug info"
> > default y
>
> Thinking about it, we already have this. It's called "CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST".
>
> It very much gets set by all{yes,mod}config, and it also says "we're
> interested in testing the compile, not so much running the result".
>
> So let's just make the DEBUG_INFO depend on !COMPILE_TEST.
>
> Trivial oneliner patch (independent of the discussion about improving
> the documentation), so I'll just apply it.
>
> I can't imagine that this would be controversial:
>
> config DEBUG_INFO
> bool "Compile the kernel with debug info"
> - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST
> help
>
> Hm?

Fully agreed.

Thanks,

Ingo
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