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    SubjectRe: [kdb] [PATCH 0/13] RFC ONLY - kdb for kgdb
    On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:23:07PM -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
    > This patch series is a request for comments on several levels.
    >
    > 1) Do people find kdb useful? (See * and **)

    Yes.

    > 2) Would kdb folks be willing to use it if it was a front end to kgdb?

    Yes.

    > 3) Does kdb have a future in the mainline kernel?

    Well, if someone invest the effort to clean it up, cut it into small
    mergeable pieces and gets it done.

    > 4) Is this a reasonable approach to have some level of
    > unification to end up with a more robust kernel debugger?

    Sounds fine to me.

    > To get the most basic functionality, you only need the first 2 patches
    > in the series. The remainder of the patches go on to incrementally
    > add back some of the functionality that was removed from kdb. I made
    > an attempt to try to make the first part just the generic set of
    > changes required to get kdb working on 1 or more archs.

    Patch 1 still containes a lot random junk. E.g. all those meminfo and
    whatever hooks aren't required for a very basic kernel debugger.



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