From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756442AbZEKJwN (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:52:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755129AbZEKJv5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:51:57 -0400 Received: from bohort.kerlabs.com ([62.160.40.57]:45401 "EHLO bohort.kerlabs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754641AbZEKJv4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 05:51:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:51:54 +0200 From: Louis Rilling To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jason Wessel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, kdb@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] RFC ONLY - kdb for kgdb Message-ID: <20090511095154.GQ25550@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com> Reply-To: Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jason Wessel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, kdb@oss.sgi.com References: <1241817800-9320-1-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com> <20090511091539.GM25550@hawkmoon.kerlabs.com> <20090511092342.GA23055@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=_bohort-10402-1242035499-0001-2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090511092342.GA23055@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_bohort-10402-1242035499-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/05/09 5:23 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:15:39AM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote: > > Do you intend to support kdb modules? If yes, in which extent should th= ey be > > adapted? >=20 > I think that would be a very low priority. What would be useful is the > hack to load debuginfo into kdb so that it can pretty-print arbitrary > structures. That alone would replace about 90% of the kdb modules I > think. >=20 > And yes, that code in current kdb is even more ugly than core kdb, so > it would need a major cleanup first. I was thinking about custom KDB modules, but I agree that most of them coul= d be replaced by pretty-print of arbitrary structures. Thanks, Louis --=20 Dr Louis Rilling Kerlabs Skype: louis.rilling Batiment Germanium Phone: (+33|0) 6 80 89 08 23 80 avenue des Buttes de Coesmes http://www.kerlabs.com/ 35700 Rennes --=_bohort-10402-1242035499-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKB/U6VKcRuvQ9Q1QRAtk2AKCPcnxS8OKwDKJetZurAhPF6Qf8zACfXyIp RzR+q0YDW6WycbK4NZZcZUo= =Ddqb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_bohort-10402-1242035499-0001-2--