From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757832AbZEKJXv (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:23:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755401AbZEKJXm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:23:42 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:44056 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753262AbZEKJXm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:23:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:23:43 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jason Wessel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, kdb@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] RFC ONLY - kdb for kgdb Message-ID: <20090511092342.GA23055@infradead.org> References: <1241817800-9320-1-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com> <20090511091539.GM25550@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090511091539.GM25550@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:15:39AM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote: > Do you intend to support kdb modules? If yes, in which extent should they be > adapted? I think that would be a very low priority. What would be useful is the hack to load debuginfo into kdb so that it can pretty-print arbitrary structures. That alone would replace about 90% of the kdb modules I think. And yes, that code in current kdb is even more ugly than core kdb, so it would need a major cleanup first.