Re: backtrace support

["Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>]

On Thursday 18 August 2005 23:19, Vincent Guffens wrote:
> cool ! I will wait a little bit for your comments and those from Okuji
> as there are a few changes I made that I'm not sure if they are very
> clean, especially those in genmk.rb.

Good job, Vincent.

> I used some "cat config.h" and 
> maybe there are some better ways. 

Possibly you can substitute a variable in Makefile.in and use the variable.

> Should the Changelog entries be included in the patch or is it generated
> with the cvs log and it should then be sent in the mail body ?

ChangeLog must be handwritten. As long as it is written well, I don't care 
about how you send it. Using the Change Log mode in Emacs would help you a 
lot.

It is still necessary to clean up the patch. Running make twice does not sound 
good. One easy way is to build a separate backtrace module outside the 
kernel, and load it as soon as possible, like the normal module.

Also, I think it would be better to rename --enable-backtrace to 
--enable-debug, so that we can enable all debugging features by one option 
(when we get more debugging features, this could be useful).

Okuji