Sebastian Wankerl <sisew...@cip.cs.fau.de> writes: > On 04/05/13 06:00, Rusty Russell wrote: >> Sebastian Wankerl <sisew...@cip.cs.fau.de> writes: >>> On 04/04/13 03:00, Rusty Russell wrote: >>>> Sebastian Wankerl <sisew...@cip.cs.fau.de> writes: >>>>> Add non-zero module sections to sysfs on architectures unequal to PARISC. >>>>> KGDB needs all module sections for proper module debugging. Therefore, >>>>> commit >>>>> 35dead4235e2b67da7275b4122fed37099c2f462 is revoked except for PARISC >>>>> architecture. >>>> #ifdef CONFIG_PARISC in the middle of kernel/module.c is super-ugly, and >>>> wrong. >>> I don't see why this is wrong. It used to load all sections to sysfs >>> until the patch mentioned. Actually, it is the PARISC build chain which >>> is broken. > > We worked on that topic further. Now we have another suggestion: would > it be okay to add a field to struct module for use by kgdb where we save > the section names for our use. This seems to be the most valuable > solution as solving the sysfs stuff is rather hard.
It is hard. But being a kernel hacker isn't just about making newbies eat flaming death; sometimes we need to solve problems. We'll see what we can do; but we'll continue this in the branch of the thread that cc's linux-parisc... Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
