Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Feb 2014 06:46:13 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Clarify CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO's bloaty nature |
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > config SAVE_TIME_AND_DISK_SPACE > > bool "Faster and leaner build object files: compile without debug info" > > default y > > Thinking about it, we already have this. It's called "CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST". > > It very much gets set by all{yes,mod}config, and it also says "we're > interested in testing the compile, not so much running the result". > > So let's just make the DEBUG_INFO depend on !COMPILE_TEST. > > Trivial oneliner patch (independent of the discussion about improving > the documentation), so I'll just apply it. > > I can't imagine that this would be controversial: > > config DEBUG_INFO > bool "Compile the kernel with debug info" > - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL > + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !COMPILE_TEST > help > > Hm?
Fully agreed.
Thanks,
Ingo
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