From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267942AbUHFNzf (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:55:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267794AbUHFNzf (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:55:35 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:32524 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266493AbUHFNza (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:55:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:55:28 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Keith Owens Cc: Pat Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization Message-ID: <20040806145528.A10251@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Keith Owens , Pat Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040806141836.A9854@infradead.org> <8831.1091800314@ocs3.ocs.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <8831.1091800314@ocs3.ocs.com.au>; from kaos@sgi.com on Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:51:54PM +1000 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:51:54PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > No. We have had this discussion before - kdb is an extensible > debugger. Subsystems can add their own kdb commands to decode their > own data. Those extensions to kdb belong in the subsystem code, not in > the main kdb patch. They do not belong into mainline. kdb isn't in mainline and we shouldn't carry code for it around. I don't care whether you want it in the kdb patch or whatether it's in a separate one.