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T Ziomek wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> Possibly, though you aren't supposed to leave EARLY_DEBUG enabled
>> once you are done debugging :-)
> 
> I'm probably not the only person that would turn it on when needed, think
> "well, no harm in leaving it on for the rest of my development, and it
> might be handy; just turn it off when we're done".
> 
> It's these kind of non-obvious but undocumented things that make a lot of
> OSS code a pain to work with for non-experts [1].  What's the harm in
> giving folks a heads-up?

Well, the config text does say "(dangerous)"...

-Scott