Re: CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE needs a warning

[Laura Abbott]

On 10/06/2016 08:56 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 04:53:20PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> > On a whim, I decided to turn on CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE on
> > Fedora rawhide since it sounded harmless enough. It spewed warnings
> > and panicked some systems. Clearly it's  doing its job
> > well of finding drivers that can't handle remove properly and I
> > underestimated it.
>
> Yes, we knew it was going to find bugs, you were brave :)

Sure, let's go with brave. That makes me sound good ;)

> > I was expecting to maybe find a driver or two.
> > Can we get stronger Kconfig text indicating that this shouldn't be
> > turned on lightly? I'll be turning the option off in Fedora but sending
> > out reports from what was found.
>
> Care to send a patch with the wording change you would have found better
> to warn yourself not to do this?

Sure.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thanks,
Laura