[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Restrict DRM_I915_DEBUG to developer builds

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Jani Nikula (2021-01-22 09:35:42)
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > Let's not encourage everybody to build i915's debug code, and certainly
> > not the build robots who need to scrutinise the production build. Since
> > CI will complain if the debug build is broken, having the other build
> > bots focus on the builds we don't cover ourselves should improve the
> > build coverage.
> 
> I don't disagree with this, although I wrote in another mail that I'm
> not sure DRM_I915_DEBUG should select DRM_I915_WERROR. I think they
> should be two separate things.

DRM_I915_DEBUG is the CI catch-all, and so the build we recommend
developers try at least once. But the original purpose of DRM_I915_DEBUG
was to be able to switch on features for CI without having to bug Tomi.
-Chris