Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> There's just no *point*. 

Put another way: we lived without DEBUG_RODATA for fifteen years, why 
should we now start adding complexity to work around code that doesn't 
accept the (fairly small) debugging it gives?

Has anybody actually found a bug using it?

As far as I know, the biggest reason to use DEBUG_RODATA is

 (a) Hey, it's a cheap way to check one thing

 (b) An added layer of security (which it's not that great for, but it 
     might make sense to make it more of a real security feature).

and neither of them really seems to say "let's add more code to other 
pieces of the kernel to work around it" to me.

			Linus
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