Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:23:28 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: kgdb support in vanilla 2.6.2 |
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:16:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> 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.
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