From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264308AbTLYO70 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:59:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264310AbTLYO70 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:59:26 -0500 Received: from [66.98.192.92] ([66.98.192.92]:16288 "EHLO svr44.ehostpros.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264308AbTLYO7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:59:25 -0500 From: "Amit S. Kale" Organization: EmSysSoft To: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: KGDB: automatic loading of modules in gdb Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:29:14 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200312231818.03072.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> <20031224173205.GA27219@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20031224173205.GA27219@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312252029.14667.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr44.ehostpros.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - emsyssoft.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am going to be sending these patches to gdb developers also for review/feedback. I'll work on this feature myself for gdb. On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 11:02 pm, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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? -- Amit Kale EmSysSoft (http://www.emsyssoft.com) KGDB: Linux Kernel Source Level Debugger (http://kgdb.sourceforge.net)