Re: [GIT PULL] kgdb fixes for 2.6.34-rc2

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Jason Wessel wrote:
>
> Ping.
> 
> Linus, please help me understand how we can continue to move forward on
> the kernel debugger pull requests.  There have been numerous requests
> that have not been pulled and have no response as to what needs to be
> acted on to resolve any outstanding issues.

I've been swamped and bad, and since I wrote another email to explain why 
I'm always so grumpy (unrelated thread, nothing to do with kgdb), I'll 
cut-and-paste some of the relevant explanation for my pulling (or not 
pulling, as in this case) here too..

--> begin cut-and-pastee <--
  
  Even on the merging side, what ends up happening is that some trees I 
  decide I can't afford to merge, simply because the potential pain of 
  merging without knowing the code is too high. So I can merge a new 
  filesystem without any issues - if it's buggy, all I need to know is "new 
  filesystem craps out". But when it comes to core generic code that anybody 
  can hit, I have to _rely_ on submaintainers doing the right thing.
  
  And when that doesn't work out, and stuff falls through the cracks, I'm 
  kind of screwed. And this looked like a "fall through the cracks" thing.
  
  [ I skipped the kdb merge this window, for example, and I feel bad about 
    that, and will have to walk over the pull request with a comb once the 
    merge window fallout calms down, so that I can do it the next merge 
    window. Not because I need to understand each line, but because I 
    need to understand what the potential bigger-picture impacts are when 
    something that looks odd pops up ]
  
--> end cut-and-paste <--

and obviously one of the issues is that I end up always prioritizing my 
pulls etc, and because I'm not a huge fan of debuggers (understatement of 
the year), that pull request was always at the bottom of the pile. And 
this merge window I ended up having some Intel event things that took up a 
good chunk of the window, so I never did get to that bottom.

Usually things calm down for me at around -rc4, when it turns into a 
waiting game instead of fighting fires. So I'm expecting to do that "look 
things over" this weekend or next week. 

			Linus