Subject: Re: How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb
	patches?
From: Piet Delaney <piet@bluelane.com>
Reply-To: piet@bluelane.com
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Piet Delaney <piet@bluelane.com>, vgoyal@in.ibm.com,
       George Anzinger <george@wildturkeyranch.net>,
       Discussion
	 "list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development" 
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       kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
       Subhachandra Chandra <schandra@bluelane.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700
> Piet Delaney <piet@bluelane.com> wrote:
>=20
> > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700
> > > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > >=20
> > > >  Plus: I'd want to see a maintainance person or team who
> > > > respond promptly to email and who remain reasonably engaged with wh=
at's
> > > > going on in the mainline kernel.  Because if problems crop up (and =
they
> > > > will), I don't want to have to be the bunny who has to worry about =
them...
> > >=20
> > > umm, clarification needed here.
> > >=20
> > > No criticism of the present maintainers intended!  Last time I grabbe=
d the
> > > kgdb patches from sf.net they applied nicely, worked quite reliably (=
much
> > > better than the old ones I'd been trying to sustain) and had been
> > > tremendously cleaned up.
> >=20
> > So why did you stop including them in the mm patch?
>=20
> Some change in 2.6.17-pre caused it to all stop working.
>=20
> > I recall your quality issue and Tom was all in favor
> > of resolving them. Was it too much work cleaning up the=20
> > patches to meet your needs that lead to the patch being
> > dropped from the mm series?
>=20
> It all seems reasonably clean now, but I haven't looked closely (nor have=
 I
> had to)

Any suggestions on how to progress?


>=20
> > kgdb over ethernet is working great, and it looks like there
> > is plenty of support on the SF mailing list. =20
>=20
> good.
>=20
> > >=20
> > > It's a big step.
> >=20
> > How about a concrete list of patch quality issues that the group
> > can address to allow your weekly addition to the mm patch as a=20
> > set toward eventually integration.
>=20
> >From whom?  me?
>=20
> > Wouldn't getting kgdb back into the mm patch series be a reasonable
> > first step eventual maintenance in kernel.org?
>=20
> Is on my todo list somewhere.
--=20
Piet Delaney                                    Phone: (408) 200-5256
Blue Lane Technologies                          Fax:   (408) 200-5299
10450 Bubb Rd.
Cupertino, Ca. 95014                            Email: piet@bluelane.com

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