svn commit: r263424 - head/sys/arm/conf

[Nathan Whitehorn]

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 at 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