Paul E. McKenney wrote: > There have been a number of instances where people have accidentally > compiled rcutorture into the kernel (CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y), which > has never been useful, and has often resulted in great frustration. The > attached patch prohibits rcutorture from being compiled into the kernel. > It may be excluded altogether or compiled as a module. People wishing > to have rcutorture hammer their machine immediately upon boot are free > to hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug to remove the "depends on m" line. > > Thanks to Randy Dunlap for the trick that makes this work. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This seems reasonable to me. I can imagine legitimate reasons to want to have rcutorture running as early as possible, but as you said, anyone wishing to do so can hand-edit lib/Kconfig.debug easily enough. Acked-by: Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Josh Triplett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
