Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:27:28 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [3/6] kgdb: core
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> > i dont think so. Which ones do you mean? I just reviewed them and 
> > they are either already done, or moot (for kgdb complications that i 
> > objected to and removed from this kgdb-x86 tree).
> 
> The one I noticed quickly is the __ASSEMBLY__ removal from 
> asm-x86/kgdb.h. [...]

people might want to experiment with early debug code as well and 
include asm-x86/kgdb.h in assembly files. So i kept that, it's sensible. 

> [...]  I haven't looked at the serial bits because I don't think I'm 
> qualified to comment on those, but I'm also not seeing any replies to 
> any of his patches.  Especially the comments on the arch interface 
> seem like something that should be acted upon to me.

yeah - i also noticed that the serial subsystem is marked "orphaned" in 
the MAINTAINERS file:

 8250/16?50 (AND CLONE UARTS) SERIAL DRIVER
 L:      linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
 W:      http://serial.sourceforge.net
 S:      Orphan

and compared to the raw-lowlevel-serial-driver hackery that KGDB used to 
do this is a big step forward. Note that it's all dependent on 
CONFIG_KGDB.

	Ingo
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