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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:55:28 +0000
Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:51:54PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> No.  We have had this discussion before - kdb is an extensible
> debugger.  Subsystems can add their own kdb commands to decode their
> own data.  Those extensions to kdb belong in the subsystem code, not in
> the main kdb patch.

They do not belong into mainline.  kdb isn't in mainline and we shouldn't
carry code for it around.  I don't care whether you want it in the kdb patch
or whatether it's in a separate one.