From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264450AbUBEA1b (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:27:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265137AbUBEA0A (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:26:00 -0500 Received: from fed1mtao07.cox.net ([68.6.19.124]:30366 "EHLO fed1mtao07.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265162AbUBEAXa (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:23:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:23:28 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Andrew Morton Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2 Message-ID: <20040205002328.GA5219@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20040204230133.GA8702@elf.ucw.cz> <20040204152137.500e8319.akpm@osdl.org> <20040204232447.GC256@elf.ucw.cz> <20040204235508.GB1086@smtp.west.cox.net> <20040204161626.1a2f8885.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040204161626.1a2f8885.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:16:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Tom Rini 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/