Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger | Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:16:49 +1000 |
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On Wednesday 06 August 2008 23:11, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> writes: > >> Seriously? Because it doesn't seem to have had enough peer review, > >> it hasn't had widespread testing in somewhere like linux-next or > >> -mm, and we already have kgdb so you have to also explain why you > >> can't improve kgdb in the areas it trails mdb. > >> > >> But the ideal outcome would be if you could contribute patches to > >> kgdb to the point where it is as good as mdb. It is already in the > > That idea sounds familiar, the "suspend2" response, when something new > and significantly different is offered, instead of putting it in and > letting people choose in configuration, take the position that what is > there is good enough, and if the author of the new solution will just > drop all their ideas and slap some band-aids on the existing code it > will be "gooder enough" without actually offering people a choice of > something different.
No. First try to integrate them together so you have the best of both from one code base is what I was saying. I specifically said if they are significantly different and can't be reconciled then it could be merged.
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