From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add dmesg command to xmon
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:58:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060529175834.GA31082@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605281812.09308.arnd@arndb.de>
On Sun, May 28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 28 May 2006 14:07, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > This whole function looks fishy to me. It seems unnecessarily rude to me to
> > > use kallsyms_lookup_name in order to get at a static variable from another
> > > file. Can't you instead add a global function to kernel/printk.c to return
> > > the buffer?
> >
> > Its possible, but it wont end up in Linus tree.
>
> Hmm, so the idea is that because Linus doesn't like kernel debuggers, we just
> obfuscate the code for any improvements to xmon and hope he doesn't notice?
So lets just ask again for support in generic code for a dmesg command in xmon:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/28/32
vs. these 2 patches
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-May/023261.html
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/29/55
or no dmesg at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-29 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-28 10:46 [PATCH] powerpc: add dmesg command to xmon Olaf Hering
2006-05-28 12:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-28 12:07 ` Olaf Hering
2006-05-28 16:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-29 17:58 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-05-30 16:58 ` Linas Vepstas
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