Subject: re: 'machine' DDB command
To: Jarom r Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/19/2001 23:35:01
matthew green wrote:
> i dunno, i don't agree with this. i can imagine a situation when you send
> someone else an LKM with new ddb commands. or you're trying to debug a
> system you don't want to reboot and you're already using DDB heavily for
> debugging. i can think of more reasons it might be valid.
OK, so having the ability to add new DDB commands via LKM would probably be
handy sometimes. But is there a need to replace existing DDB commands ? That's
what we talk about.
is there a real need to remove the ability? i really like the const
work you've been doing, and hope you continue through out more of the
kernel, but only if it doesn't sacrifice anything ...
.mrg.