linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/13] RFC ONLY

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 11:51:54 +0200
From:	Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@...labs.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	kdb@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] RFC ONLY - kdb for kgdb

On 11/05/09  5:23 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:15:39AM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
> > Do you intend to support kdb modules? If yes, in which extent should they be
> > adapted?
> 
> I think that would be a very low priority.  What would be useful is the
> hack to load debuginfo into kdb so that it can pretty-print arbitrary
> structures.  That alone would replace about 90% of the kdb modules I
> think.
> 
> And yes, that code in current kdb is even more ugly than core kdb, so
> it would need a major cleanup first.

I was thinking about custom KDB modules, but I agree that most of them could be
replaced by pretty-print of arbitrary structures.

Thanks,

Louis

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