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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/21] KGDB: Request to merge KGDB
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:20:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:32:24 -0500 Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> wrote:
> > This is a request to merge KGDB into the mainline kernel.  
> 
> This won't work very well.  There's a lot of review work to be done here,
> and a lot of it by busy architecture maintainers.  Expecting people to do
> all this review and test work late in the merge window when they're all
> madly scrambling to get their bugs^Wpatches into mainline is not reasonable.
> This should all have started a month ago.
> 
> So we're looking at a 2.6.25 merge for this work.  After this round of
> review has settled, please upissue the patches and keep linux-arch (cc'ed
> here) copied on everything, thanks.
> 
It would also be nice to balance this out with the utrace merge, as both
are going to cause quite a lot of pain on the architecture side.