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Re: kdb wishlist

To: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: kdb wishlist
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 13:41:51 +0100 (BST)
Cc: kdb@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <23270.989323782@ocs3.ocs-net>
Sender: owner-kdb@xxxxxxxxxxx
Keith,

What would be really great is to add the following item to your wishlist:

* make it possible (it is trivial but a pain to have to do it manually
every time I upgrade to your latest version!) for those extra "modules" to
be statically linked in. So that one doesn't have to keep these lines
in the rc.local
  
if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/kdb ]
then
        insmod kdbm_pg > /dev/null 2>&1
        insmod kdbm_vm > /dev/null 2>&1
fi

and then discover that the modules are from the compilation corresponding
to a different tweak in page.h or highmem or whatever (let him who readeth
understand ;)

Long time ago I suggested removing the infrastructure for these "modules"
completely (justification being -- it is not useless _only_ in a very
exotic case of the need to teach kdb new features on a running kernel 
without permission to reboot) but you objected and that is fine, but at
least making it optionally possible would be _very nice_, please.

Regards,
Tigran


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