Planned availability of SGI kdb and lkcd in future 2.4 vendor dis tributions

[Scott Lurndal]

> 
> >I am going to make one more try at persuading Linus to include
> > kdb in the base kernel (2.4 only) but I don't expect to succeed.  Then
> > I plan to contact the distributors.
> My own thinking is kdb is more of a development tool than part of the actual kernel, but to ensure that all kernel developers know
> and can use kdb, it should be part of GNU or all the major distributions.
> 
> Amit
> 

Being that there is no additional overhead (aside from some small number
of kb of code) when KDB is included in a production kernel, it is nice
to have on all the time - just in case the system does panic or hang
due to a heisenbug.

scott