Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:47:34PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get
> > line wrapped.)
> >
> > A change not too long ago made i386's genapic symbol no longer be
> > exported,
> > and thus certain low-level functions no longer be usable. Since
> > close-to-
> > the-hardware code may still be modular, this rectifies the situation.
>
> Again, what code would use it, why and why can't it use a proper accessor.
> And a shitty thousands of lines out ot tree debugger ported from Novell's
> legacy OS is not the answer, btw.
Why not? Most debuggers will always be out of tree for political
reasons, and because of that the normal "every hook must
have an in tree user" rule cannot be strictly applied to them.
It's also not reasonable to ask these people to always
carry big patchkits around - after all they just want
to debug core kernel code, and it is very ugly to apply
a big patchkit just for that.
So as long as the hooks for external modular debuggers
are reasonable and _GPL I think they should be merged.
-Andi
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