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SubjectRe: How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb patches?
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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:
>
> > 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:
> > >
> > > > Plus: I'd want to see a maintainance person or team who
> > > > respond promptly to email and who remain reasonably engaged with what'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...
> > >
> > > umm, clarification needed here.
> > >
> > > No criticism of the present maintainers intended! Last time I grabbed 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.
> >
> > So why did you stop including them in the mm patch?
>
> Some change in 2.6.17-pre caused it to all stop working.
>
> > I recall your quality issue and Tom was all in favor
> > of resolving them. Was it too much work cleaning up the
> > patches to meet your needs that lead to the patch being
> > dropped from the mm series?
>
> It all seems reasonably clean now, but I haven't looked closely (nor have I
> had to)

Any suggestions on how to progress?


>
> > kgdb over ethernet is working great, and it looks like there
> > is plenty of support on the SF mailing list.
>
> good.
>
> > >
> > > It's a big step.
> >
> > 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
> > set toward eventually integration.
>
> >From whom? me?
>
> > Wouldn't getting kgdb back into the mm patch series be a reasonable
> > first step eventual maintenance in kernel.org?
>
> Is on my todo list somewhere.
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