On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:32 -0700 > Piet Delaney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:48:22 -0700 > > > Andrew Morton <[email protected]> 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. -- Piet Delaney Phone: (408) 200-5256 Blue Lane Technologies Fax: (408) 200-5299 10450 Bubb Rd. Cupertino, Ca. 95014 Email: [email protected]
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