Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

Felipe Contreras
2014-05-06T09:38:37Z

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 3:49 PM, David Timothy Strauss
<david@davidstrauss.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> Since I haven't even heard a "my bad" from the systemd people, I'd be
>> inclined to say that a bit of protection for future issues would be a
>> good idea.
>
> Just coming back to this thread now, I'll say something. I'm a systemd
> maintainer, and I'm sorry systemd's assertion bug, combined with
> aliasing the debug option with the kernel's, broke a bunch of
> workflows (including boot) and caused a bunch of unnecessary pain.

I think the real deeper bug in systemd is Kay Sievers and his
development practices.

> As a few other people have already said, this assertion should now be
> fixed. The question is now about the debug option, and I've given my
> +1 to Greg's patch for that. I think it's justified to put a condom on
> systemd's debug mode given how badly the assertion bug cascaded into
> affecting non-systemd work.

Unfortunately it seems your +1 (and everybody else's in that thread)
didn't matter as the patch was not applied.

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Felipe Contreras