Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:16:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > Andrew, what features of George's version don't you like?
> 
> This is bad:
> 
> akpm:/usr/src/25> grep '^+#ifdef' patches/kgdb-ga.patch | wc -l 
>      83
> 
> and the fact that it touches 36 different files.
> 
> Any time I've had to do any maintenance work against that stub I get lost
> in a twisty maze and just whine at George about it.  It's just all over the
> place.  Yes, this is partly the nature of the beast, but I don't see that a
> ton of effort has been put into reducing the straggliness.
> 
> > Right now
> > I'm working on moving the kgdb-eth driver that uses netpoll over
> > into Amit's version, and thinking of a cleaner away to allow for both
> > early debugging and multiple drivers (eth or serial A or serial B).
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> Look, there's a lot of interest in this and I of course am fully
> supportive.  If someone could send me Amit's patchset when they think I
> should test it, I could then talk about it more usefully.

Alright.  I hope to soon have netpoll'ed kgdb-over-ethernet happy.  From
there, I'll send you a patch that's Amit's work + cleanups / fixes, and
better PPC support.  Then we can see which features are in George's
version become a must-have.

-- 
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/