Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:04:08 +0100 | From | Jan Kiszka <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure |
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On 2013-01-23 13:01, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:44:04PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> I wonder why we should do this, remove the convenience of the >> automatic script setup, but I'm open for arguments. > > Only one: you get the symlink > > vmlinux-gdb.py -> /..../scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py > > created automatically when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled and people who > enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO for other reasons and don't want to use gdb to > debug the kernel don't need it but will get it anyway.
A lot of stuff is generated in the output directories during the kernel build, so I wonder if this one really matters.
Jan
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