Re: add DIAGNOSTIC back to GENERIC/INSTALL

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 04:17:02PM +0100, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > - Obviously, defined policy/responsibility to disable these options
> > > > for release kernels.  In fact, if we go this way - then options
> > > > should be removed from all MD kernel configs and managed in MI
> > > > src/sys/conf/std.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure this is doable: some ports may want to keep DIAGNOSTIC in
> > > release branches, while others may want to exclude DIAGNOSTIC from
> > > some kernels on HEAD (for example because of space constraints).
> > 
> > Why not?  Such ports can still define the option in their configs.
> > Also,
> 
> No because you'll then have "already have options `DIAGNOSTIC'" from
> config.

Yes, that would be an extra headache for release branch (perhaps one
could make it easier with some config magic).  However, expectation
of release branch is a stable kernel.  Why do you want to distribute
Xen kernel with inconsistent options (vs x86) and against policy?

-- 
Mindaugas