Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure

Jan Kiszka
2013-01-23T12:05:12Z

On 2013-01-23 13:01, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.

A lot of stuff is generated in the output directories during the kernel
build, so I wonder if this one really matters.

Jan

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