Debug still in kernel

Jason Garrett kingedgar at gmail.com
Sat Mar 6 19:59:11 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett <kingedgar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed
> that
> > debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was
> > supposed to be left out once the 8 branch went RELEASE? Can anyone shed
> > light on this subject?
>
> What makes you think debugging is still on?
>

>From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC

makeoptions     DEBUG=-g                # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug
symbols
options         PREEMPTION              # Enable kernel thread preemption

why are these still in GENERIC after release?


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