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Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.67.48.245] ([192.19.223.252]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-315f5386edbsm2775251a91.6.2025.06.25.14.17.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1efcc990-957f-4b33-9fe8-59cb2c36fed4@broadcom.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:17:50 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Associate GDB scripts with their subsystems To: Andrew Morton , Jan Kiszka Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbingham@kernel.org References: <20250625175239.1099848-1-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com> <20250625132228.b072618317afd2fbaaa3aaef@linux-foundation.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Florian Fainelli Autocrypt: addr=florian.fainelli@broadcom.com; keydata= xsBNBFPAG8ABCAC3EO02urEwipgbUNJ1r6oI2Vr/+uE389lSEShN2PmL3MVnzhViSAtrYxeT M0Txqn1tOWoIc4QUl6Ggqf5KP6FoRkCrgMMTnUAINsINYXK+3OLe7HjP10h2jDRX4Ajs4Ghs JrZOBru6rH0YrgAhr6O5gG7NE1jhly+EsOa2MpwOiXO4DE/YKZGuVe6Bh87WqmILs9KvnNrQ PcycQnYKTVpqE95d4M824M5cuRB6D1GrYovCsjA9uxo22kPdOoQRAu5gBBn3AdtALFyQj9DQ KQuc39/i/Kt6XLZ/RsBc6qLs+p+JnEuPJngTSfWvzGjpx0nkwCMi4yBb+xk7Hki4kEslABEB AAHNMEZsb3JpYW4gRmFpbmVsbGkgPGZsb3JpYW4uZmFpbmVsbGlAYnJvYWRjb20uY29tPsLB IQQQAQgAywUCZWl41AUJI+Jo+hcKAAG/SMv+fS3xUQWa0NryPuoRGjsA3SAUAAAAAAAWAAFr ZXktdXNhZ2UtbWFza0BwZ3AuY29tjDAUgAAAAAAgAAdwcmVmZXJyZWQtZW1haWwtZW5jb2Rp bmdAcGdwLmNvbXBncG1pbWUICwkIBwMCAQoFF4AAAAAZGGxkYXA6Ly9rZXlzLmJyb2FkY29t Lm5ldAUbAwAAAAMWAgEFHgEAAAAEFQgJChYhBNXZKpfnkVze1+R8aIExtcQpvGagAAoJEIEx tcQpvGagWPEH/2l0DNr9QkTwJUxOoP9wgHfmVhqc0ZlDsBFv91I3BbhGKI5UATbipKNqG13Z TsBrJHcrnCqnTRS+8n9/myOF0ng2A4YT0EJnayzHugXm+hrkO5O9UEPJ8a+0553VqyoFhHqA zjxj8fUu1px5cbb4R9G4UAySqyeLLeqnYLCKb4+GklGSBGsLMYvLmIDNYlkhMdnnzsSUAS61 WJYW6jjnzMwuKJ0ZHv7xZvSHyhIsFRiYiEs44kiYjbUUMcXor/uLEuTIazGrE3MahuGdjpT2 IOjoMiTsbMc0yfhHp6G/2E769oDXMVxCCbMVpA+LUtVIQEA+8Zr6mX0Yk4nDS7OiBlvOwE0E U8AbwQEIAKxr71oqe+0+MYCc7WafWEcpQHFUwvYLcdBoOnmJPxDwDRpvU5LhqSPvk/yJdh9k 4xUDQu3rm1qIW2I9Puk5n/Jz/lZsqGw8T13DKyu8eMcvaA/irm9lX9El27DPHy/0qsxmxVmU pu9y9S+BmaMb2CM9IuyxMWEl9ruWFS2jAWh/R8CrdnL6+zLk60R7XGzmSJqF09vYNlJ6Bdbs MWDXkYWWP5Ub1ZJGNJQ4qT7g8IN0qXxzLQsmz6tbgLMEHYBGx80bBF8AkdThd6SLhreCN7Uh IR/5NXGqotAZao2xlDpJLuOMQtoH9WVNuuxQQZHVd8if+yp6yRJ5DAmIUt5CCPcAEQEAAcLB gQQYAQIBKwUCU8AbwgUbDAAAAMBdIAQZAQgABgUCU8AbwQAKCRCTYAaomC8PVQ0VCACWk3n+ obFABEp5Rg6Qvspi9kWXcwCcfZV41OIYWhXMoc57ssjCand5noZi8bKg0bxw4qsg+9cNgZ3P N/DFWcNKcAT3Z2/4fTnJqdJS//YcEhlr8uGs+ZWFcqAPbteFCM4dGDRruo69IrHfyyQGx16s CcFlrN8vD066RKevFepb/ml7eYEdN5SRALyEdQMKeCSf3mectdoECEqdF/MWpfWIYQ1hEfdm C2Kztm+h3Nkt9ZQLqc3wsPJZmbD9T0c9Rphfypgw/SfTf2/CHoYVkKqwUIzI59itl5Lze+R5 wDByhWHx2Ud2R7SudmT9XK1e0x7W7a5z11Q6vrzuED5nQvkhAAoJEIExtcQpvGagugcIAJd5 EYe6KM6Y6RvI6TvHp+QgbU5dxvjqSiSvam0Ms3QrLidCtantcGT2Wz/2PlbZqkoJxMQc40rb fXa4xQSvJYj0GWpadrDJUvUu3LEsunDCxdWrmbmwGRKqZraV2oG7YEddmDqOe0Xm/NxeSobc MIlnaE6V0U8f5zNHB7Y46yJjjYT/Ds1TJo3pvwevDWPvv6rdBeV07D9s43frUS6xYd1uFxHC 7dZYWJjZmyUf5evr1W1gCgwLXG0PEi9n3qmz1lelQ8lSocmvxBKtMbX/OKhAfuP/iIwnTsww 95A2SaPiQZA51NywV8OFgsN0ITl2PlZ4Tp9hHERDe6nQCsNI/Us= In-Reply-To: <20250625132228.b072618317afd2fbaaa3aaef@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 6/25/25 13:22, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:38:20 +0200 Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> On 25.06.25 19:52, Florian Fainelli wrote: >>> The GDB scripts under scripts/gdb/linux are very useful for inspecting >>> kernel data structures however they depend upon the internal APIs and >>> data structures which are updated without much consideration for those >>> scripts. This results in a near constant catching up with fixing the >>> scripts so they continue to work. >>> >>> Associate the GDB scripts with their subsystems in the hope that they >>> get more love and attention. >>> >> >> ... >> >> I will surely support any proposal that helps connecting the scripts >> with subsystems they address. However, you should likely break up this >> one here into per-subsystem patches and address each affected >> maintainer. They should have a chance to accept or reject this potential >> extension of their responsibility. > > I agree - this proposal doesn't seem very practical, really. Yes, that's a good point it should be on a per-subsystem basis to decide whether they are willing to take on the maintenance, if nothing else the reporting. > > It might actually be harmful - if someone has an issue with a gdb script > they'll report that to the subsystem maintainer rather than to the GDB > script maintainers who are better equipped to address the issue. If they run scripts/get_maintainer.pl they will get both subsystems to be listed as recipients to reach out to, so that should help cross pollinate and ease the pain of fixing. > > And I'm not sure there's really a problem to fix here. I'm seeing 13 > commits to scripts/gdb this year and afaict only one (e0349c46cb4f > ("scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py: address changes to module_sect_attrs")) > looks like it is fixing up such a problem. There are a few more that result from breakage that could have been avoided: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250601055027.3661480-1-tony.ambardar@gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250619225105.320729-1-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com/ and the recent ones for interrupts.py. -- Florian