Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:10:16 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Bukin <br@freebsd.org>, Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r263424 - head/sys/arm/conf Message-ID: <532D2948.9050606@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140322052957.GA23556@machdep.com> References: <201403201701.s2KH1L84024044@svn.freebsd.org> <20140321094316.76ccf459@bender.Home> <20140322052957.GA23556@machdep.com>
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On 03/21/14 22:29, Ruslan Bukin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:43:16AM +0000, Andrew Turner wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:01:21 +0000 (UTC) >> Ruslan Bukin <br@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >>> Author: br >>> Date: Thu Mar 20 17:01:21 2014 >>> New Revision: 263424 >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/263424 >>> >>> Log: >>> Disable debugging by default. >> I don't like this on head. I have found a number of issues that were >> hidden because the kernel config most people were using for development >> had WITNESS, INVARIANTS and DIAGNOSTIC disabled. >> > I think arm codebase is so small, so every commit is like > a huge evolutional update... > Is anyone merging every commit to stable? no > so I think arm users prefered to run -current, not stable. > (say they need fb driver for chromebook). > > Developer can set debug locally any time, but users no idea > about debugging is ON, so they get running slow system, > and then got disappointed. > > -Ruslan > > It's still super dangerous. For one thing, it means the debug code will bitrot since it is never turned on. For another, the beginning of /usr/src/UPDATING has a huge banner about this and what to do about it already. -Nathan
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