Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, ptdump: Add the functionality to dump an arbitrary pagetable

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 01/13/2014 05:40 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> On 01/13/14 at 06:48am, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On 1/13/2014 4:23 AM, Dave Young wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How about do not limit to only if (pgd) case, instead do something
>>>>> like below: set dump_to_dmesg as a module parameter
>>>>
>>>> X86_PTDUMP is not a module.
>>>
>>> Hmm, I just see the module macros in the code, since it's a bool Kconfig
>>> I think the dump_pagetables.c need a cleanup,
>>> remove the #include <linux/module.h> and below lines:
>>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>>> MODULE_AUTHOR("Arjan van de Ven <arjan-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>");
>>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Kernel debugging helper that dumps pagetables");
>>
>> personally I consider it good form to always have this kind of information in .c files,
>> regardless of the KConfig side of thing...
> 
> I agree it's good to add these infomation, but they can be added in comment.
> IMHO it will be better in that way.
> 

Why the [Finnish] do you feel that information needs to be in a
different form because it is (currently!) not available as a module?

	-hpa