Linux 5.17 Making It Easier To Build A Kernel With All The Shiny Debug Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.17 Making It Easier To Build A Kernel With All The Shiny Debug Features

Over the years the Linux kernel has picked up many different sanitizers, memory leak detectors, and other features for helping to diagnose and address deficiencies in the kernel. However, all of these debugging-optimized features aren't centrally located that can make it difficult for system administrators and developers to spot these numerous features when configuring a kernel build manually. Now with Linux 5.17 that is changing...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.17-debug-config

[naoliv]

the largest enterprise Linux distro company

Which company is this?

[RahulSundaram]

Which company is this?

Looks to be Red Hat. This person appears to be working on quality engineering for Red Hat.

[skeevy420]

Which company is this?

I'm guessing Qualcomm based on the email address of the commit.

[Vistaus]

Looks to be Red Hat. This person appears to be working on quality engineering for Red Hat.

A Red Hat dev with a corporate Qualcomm email address? That doesn't seem likely to me.

[RahulSundaram]

A Red Hat dev with a corporate Qualcomm email address? That doesn't seem likely to me.

He definitely worked for Red Hat before. So his reference to enterprise Linux distro company is Red Hat, not Qualcomm.

[anolting]

quicinc.com is redirected to Qualcomm.com. Interestingly i find lots of reference to tracker quicinc.com. is this a coincidence?