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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:23:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130312202303.GB6060@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130312193824.025713118@gulag1.americas.sgi.com>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:38:28PM -0500, Mike Travis wrote:
> This patch adds some important KDB functions to be externally
> usable by loadable KDB modules.

What modules would that be?  Are they in this patch series?

> Note that often drivers bring in KDB modules for debugging, and in the
> past KDB has not been limited to use by GPL only modules.

It always has been, when was the in-kernel code any other way?

> This patch restores KDB usefullness to non-GPL modules.

As Eric says, you can't just do this, sorry.

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-12 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-12 19:38 [PATCH 00/14] x86/UV/KDB/NMI: Updates for NMI/KDB handler for SGI UV Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 01/14] KDB: fix the interrupt of the KDB btc command Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 02/14] KDB: fix errant character in KDB show regs Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 03/14] KDB: up the default LINES value Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 04/14] KDB: allow KDB modules to be external modules Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules Mike Travis
2013-03-12 20:09   ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-12 22:03     ` Mike Travis
2013-03-12 22:13       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-12 22:26         ` Mike Travis
2013-03-12 22:39       ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-03-12 23:03         ` Mike Travis
2013-03-12 20:23   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-03-12 22:01   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-03-12 22:08     ` Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 06/14] KDB: consolidate KDB grep code Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 07/14] KDB: clean up KDB grep code, add some options Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 08/14] KDB: Restore call to kdump from KDB Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 09/14] KDB: Add pshelp command Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 10/14] KGDB/KDB: add support for external NMI handler to call KGDB/KDB Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 11/14] x86/UV: Move NMI support Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 12/14] x86/UV: Add uvtrace support Mike Travis
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 13/14] x86/UV: Update UV support for external NMI signals Mike Travis
2013-03-14  7:20   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-03-20  6:13     ` Mike Travis
2013-03-21 11:51       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-03-12 19:38 ` [PATCH 14/14] x86/UV: Add call to KGDB/KDB from NMI handler Mike Travis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-13 14:53 [PATCH 05/14] KDB: add more exports for supporting KDB modules Scott Lurndal

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