From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263464AbTLXRcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:32:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263539AbTLXRcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:32:10 -0500 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:61392 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263464AbTLXRcI (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:32:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:32:05 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Amit S. Kale" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: KGDB: automatic loading of modules in gdb Message-ID: <20031224173205.GA27219@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Amit S. Kale" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200312231818.03072.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312231818.03072.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:18:02PM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote: > Hi, > > I have integrated a couple of kgdb features from TimeSys Linux distribution. > > 1. Automatic loading of module files in gdb: > A special version of gdb is provided with this feature. It can detect loading > and unloading of modules in a kernel. Whenever a module is loaded, gdb loads > the module object file and makes it available for debugging. loadmodule.sh > script is no longer needed. Have you or TimeSys, oh, I don't know, considered sending information about this feature to the GDB developers so that KGDB does not require a custom version of the GDB client? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer