cvs commit: src/tools/debugscripts README kgdb kld_deb.py

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 06:03:43PM +0000, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> jmg         2004-08-04 18:03:43 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     tools/debugscripts   README 
>   Added files:
>     tools/debugscripts   kgdb kld_deb.py 
>   Log:
>   add a set of scripts that I posted to -current last year.  This makes
>   debugging kernels and kernel modules much easier.  It will automaticly
>   locate kernel source, extract kernel module information, and rerun gdb
>   to load kernel module symbol information (if available by compiling module
>   w/ debuging symbols).
>   
>   I have not run these recently, so may need to be updated to work with
>   gdb6.  Feel free to fix as appropriate for -current.

They are mostly useless with gdb6, because support is already (partially)
in kgdb(1) and what is not there yet is already planned. I don't mind
that you commit these scripts, but the last sentence is crucial: it
means that there's more unfinished stuff in the repository that needs
attention to complete and thereby distracting attention away from where
it's really needed.  Your time would also be spent in a more focussed and
constructive way if you would have add some of the features to kgdb(1).

If you want to help out, make sure you help doing things that need to
be done.

FYI,

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