Re: How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb patches?

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700
Piet Delaney <piet@bluelane.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > 
> > >  Plus: I'd want to see a maintainance person or team who
> > > respond promptly to email and who remain reasonably engaged with what's
> > > going on in the mainline kernel.  Because if problems crop up (and they
> > > will), I don't want to have to be the bunny who has to worry about them...
> > 
> > umm, clarification needed here.
> > 
> > No criticism of the present maintainers intended!  Last time I grabbed the
> > kgdb patches from sf.net they applied nicely, worked quite reliably (much
> > better than the old ones I'd been trying to sustain) and had been
> > tremendously cleaned up.
> 
> So why did you stop including them in the mm patch?

Some change in 2.6.17-pre caused it to all stop working.

> I recall your quality issue and Tom was all in favor
> of resolving them. Was it too much work cleaning up the 
> patches to meet your needs that lead to the patch being
> dropped from the mm series?

It all seems reasonably clean now, but I haven't looked closely (nor have I
had to)

> kgdb over ethernet is working great, and it looks like there
> is plenty of support on the SF mailing list.  

good.

> > 
> > It's a big step.
> 
> How about a concrete list of patch quality issues that the group
> can address to allow your weekly addition to the mm patch as a 
> set toward eventually integration.

>From whom?  me?

> Wouldn't getting kgdb back into the mm patch series be a reasonable
> first step eventual maintenance in kernel.org?

Is on my todo list somewhere.