Re: [PATCH 0/21] KGDB: Request to merge KGDB

From: Russell King
Date: Fri Oct 19 2007 - 03:53:18 EST


On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 05:00:50PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:54:29PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > What would be good is if some effort could be made by the utrace-
> > interested parties to make the transition to utrace much less painful.
> > For instance, I quite like the getregs/setregs abstractions, and it
> > looks like these *could* be self-contained in a single patch. It
> > would be nice if we could move architectures over to this one a time.
> > Once that's in, that's one chunk of utrace merged.
>
> Alexey Dobriyan had some patches to implement regsets, and these were
> posted here on lkml.

Given that not all architecture maintainers read lkml, and they are
patches affecting all *architectures*, wouldn't it have been a good
idea if they'd copied linux-arch?

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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