From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755473Ab3AWL6Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:58:25 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:43231 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755246Ab3AWL6X (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:58:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:01:16 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wessel , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Andi Kleen , Tom Tromey , Ben Widawsky , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure Message-ID: <20130123120116.GC4256@pd.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Jan Kiszka , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jason Wessel , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Andi Kleen , Tom Tromey , Ben Widawsky , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org References: <1e49f090f16f3e22711a27f473e2ed604f6a249f.1358787929.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com> <20130123114157.GB4256@pd.tnic> <50FFCD04.2030207@siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50FFCD04.2030207@siemens.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:44:04PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > I wonder why we should do this, remove the convenience of the > automatic script setup, but I'm open for arguments. Only one: you get the symlink vmlinux-gdb.py -> /..../scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py created automatically when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled and people who enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO for other reasons and don't want to use gdb to debug the kernel don't need it but will get it anyway. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --