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From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: prasanna@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	ak@muc.de, suparna@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [1/2] PATCH Kernel watchpoint interface-2.6.9-rc4-mm1
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:22:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5418.1098091328@ocs3.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:15:25 +0530." <20041018084525.GA27936@in.ibm.com>

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:15:25 +0530, 
Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>This patch provides global debug register settings.
>Used by kernel watchpoint interface patch.

>+config DEBUGREG
>+	bool "Global Debug Registers"
>+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
>+	help
>+	  Global debug register settings will be honoured if this is turned on.
>+	  If in doubt, say "N".
>+

I like most of the patch, but Kconfig is wrong.  This option should not
be exposed to end users, instead CONFIG_DEBUGREG should be selected by
the debug code that calls debugreg.  IOW, kgdb, kdb or kwatch select
debugreg, not the other way around.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-18  8:43 [0/2] PATCH Kernel watchpoint interface-2.6.9-rc4-mm1 Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-18  8:45 ` [1/2] " Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-18  8:46   ` [2/2] " Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-22  6:40     ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-18  9:22   ` Keith Owens [this message]
2004-10-18 12:46   ` [1/2] " Andi Kleen
2004-10-22  6:15     ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi

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