Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275487AbTHNUMr (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:12:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275489AbTHNUMr (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:12:47 -0400 Received: from zeke.inet.com ([199.171.211.198]:63896 "EHLO zeke.inet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275487AbTHNUMi (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:12:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3BED30.90904@inet.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 15:12:32 -0500 From: Eli Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030708 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linus Torvalds , Russell King , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM References: <1060879622.5983.7.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1424 Lines: 34 Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2003-08-14 at 17:19, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>Does anybody actually _use_ /proc/kcore? It was one of those "cool >>feature" things, but I certainly haven't ever used it myself except for >>testing, and it's historically often been broken after various kernel >>infrastructure updates, and people haven't complained.. >> >>Comments? > > > Now if you'd agree to merge the kgdb stubs to replace it.... ;) I for one would like to see that. However: The simple protocol that it uses needs to be factored out to an arch-independent place, and the various archs need to be modified to use it. To get to that point will likely require someone doing it for one or two archs and then having enough community clout to convince other archs to merge with it. It could get to the point where it's a pretty clean implementation (for debugger hooks ;) ). No, that isn't something I can take on. :/ (Though I did get it partially working on 2.5 XScale.) Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/