Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 23 2013 - 06:58:08 EST


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:44:04PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> I wonder why we should do this, remove the convenience of the
> automatic script setup, but I'm open for arguments.

Only one: you get the symlink

vmlinux-gdb.py -> /..../scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py

created automatically when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is enabled and people who
enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO for other reasons and don't want to use gdb to
debug the kernel don't need it but will get it anyway.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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