Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] Move eth into 'lite' series?

["Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@emsyssoft.com>]

On Monday 22 Mar 2004 8:11 pm, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:42:21PM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 Mar 2004 2:33 am, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > I was thinking, now that netpoll is in 2.6.5-rc1, should we move the
> > > kgdboe driver into the -lite series?  I'd like to say Yes, with a quick
> > > check over the include list.
> >
> > Let's wait till current session to push kgdb into mainline kernel is
> > over. We need not push kgdboe into lite series, we can push it into
> > mainline kernel itself :-)
> >
> > I was supposed to submit second version of lite patches monday this week,
> > but was preempted by some other work. I'll post them on coming monday now
>
> Actually, I was thinking just the opposite.  Based on Linus' comments
> (see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.1/1861.html and
> maybe http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0211.2/0089.html
> too) we can always try and get the 8250 serial backend in once kgdb +
> enet driver is already in.

That's true. kgdboe wasn't quite ready last month, otherwise we could have 
gone that way. Let's now change our direction right now. Let's push whatever 
we have. If it doesn't go in, we'll switch to eth driver instead.

-Amit