From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:56:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] ia64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP Message-Id: <458908C5.3060908@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <200612192104.kBJL4gfn010370@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <200612192104.kBJL4gfn010370@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Make it a pointy stick and I can improve on that. Aye! aye! sir! > I've been thinking that we could do with a CONFIG_RC_KERNEL or something > which gets turned on up until -rc4 or so, then gets turned off. So we can > make the devel kernels more debugging-friendly. > > The main problem would be remembering to turn the dang thing off and on at > the right times. I like that idea! I wonder if we could somehow do this with some script magic? but we may also want to be able to offer it as a config option that people can force off if they want to (with some flashy neon signs telling them they are entering rogue territory). Cheers, Jes