On Nov 6, 2007 6:07 AM, Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi> wrote:
> On Tue Nov 06 2007 at 00:45:30 +0100, Juan RP wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > I believe that enabling some debugging options by default would
> > allow us to catch errors faster and easily when someone makes a change.
> >
> > Can we please enable DEBUG/DIAGNOSTIC/LOCKDEBUG by default on HEAD?
> > when the final branch is created we could remove them.
>
> Unfortunately, in the real world, debugging options sometimes hide bugs.
> So we can't think that all will be jolly good once we turn them off.
> My personal opinion is that developers should run their code using these
> options and the rest should use the "release build" version.
>
> Actually, I believe in the "no debug options at all" approach, i.e. all
> debugging code enabled all the time, but that's another bikeshed.
>


Isn't the ideal situation to have these options available at runtime,
then less desirable would be to toggle them at boot, and then least
desirable is in the kernel config itself?