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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:59:23 +0100
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 01/28] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure
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On 2015-01-30 08:24, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This provides the basic infrastructure to load kernel-specific python
> helper scripts when debugging the kernel in gdb.
> 
> The loading mechanism is based on gdb loading for <objfile>-gdb.py when
> opening <objfile>. Therefore, this places a corresponding link to the
> main helper script into the output directory that contains vmlinux.
> 
> The main scripts will pull in submodules containing Linux specific gdb
> commands and functions. To avoid polluting the source directory with
> compiled python modules, we link to them from the object directory.
> 
> Due to gdb.parse_and_eval and string redirection for gdb.execute, we
> depend on gdb >= 7.2.
> 
> This feature is enabled via CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS.
> 
> CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> CC: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> ---
>  Makefile                      |  5 ++++-
>  lib/Kconfig.debug             | 11 +++++++++++
>  scripts/Makefile              |  1 +
>  scripts/gdb/Makefile          |  1 +
>  scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile    | 11 +++++++++++

For the kbuild stuff:
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Michal