From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:21339 "EHLO david.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754707Ab3AWMFK (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:05:10 -0500 Message-ID: <50FFD1B8.8050002@siemens.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:04:08 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure References: <1e49f090f16f3e22711a27f473e2ed604f6a249f.1358787929.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com> <20130123114157.GB4256@pd.tnic> <50FFCD04.2030207@siemens.com> <20130123120116.GC4256@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20130123120116.GC4256@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Borislav Petkov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wessel , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Andi Kleen , Tom Tromey , Ben Widawsky , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On 2013-01-23 13:01, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:44:04PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> I wonder why we should do this, remove the convenience of the >> automatic script setup, but I'm open for arguments. > > Only one: you get the symlink > > vmlinux-gdb.py -> /..../scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py > > created automatically when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled and people who > enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO for other reasons and don't want to use gdb to > debug the kernel don't need it but will get it anyway. A lot of stuff is generated in the output directories during the kernel build, so I wonder if this one really matters. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux