linux-kernel - Re: How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb patches?

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Message-Id: <1165998778.25954.12.camel@piet2.bluelane.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:32:58 -0800
From:	Piet Delaney <piet@...elane.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Piet Delaney <piet@...elane.com>, vgoyal@...ibm.com,
	George Anzinger <george@...dturkeyranch.net>,
	Discussion
	 "list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development" 
	<crash-utility@...hat.com>, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Subhachandra Chandra <schandra@...elane.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How about an enumerated list of issues with the existing kgdb
	patches?

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700
> Piet Delaney <piet@...elane.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700
> > > Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > >  Plus: I'd want to see a maintainance person or team who
> > > > respond promptly to email and who remain reasonably engaged with what's
> > > > going on in the mainline kernel.  Because if problems crop up (and they
> > > > will), I don't want to have to be the bunny who has to worry about them...
> > > 
> > > umm, clarification needed here.
> > > 
> > > No criticism of the present maintainers intended!  Last time I grabbed the
> > > kgdb patches from sf.net they applied nicely, worked quite reliably (much
> > > better than the old ones I'd been trying to sustain) and had been
> > > tremendously cleaned up.
> > 
> > So why did you stop including them in the mm patch?
> 
> Some change in 2.6.17-pre caused it to all stop working.
> 
> > I recall your quality issue and Tom was all in favor
> > of resolving them. Was it too much work cleaning up the 
> > patches to meet your needs that lead to the patch being
> > dropped from the mm series?
> 
> It all seems reasonably clean now, but I haven't looked closely (nor have I
> had to)

Any suggestions on how to progress?


> 
> > kgdb over ethernet is working great, and it looks like there
> > is plenty of support on the SF mailing list.  
> 
> good.
> 
> > > 
> > > It's a big step.
> > 
> > How about a concrete list of patch quality issues that the group
> > can address to allow your weekly addition to the mm patch as a 
> > set toward eventually integration.
> 
> >From whom?  me?
> 
> > Wouldn't getting kgdb back into the mm patch series be a reasonable
> > first step eventual maintenance in kernel.org?
> 
> Is on my todo list somewhere.
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