On Sunday 28 May 2006 14:07, Olaf Hering wrote:

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This whole function looks fishy to me. It seems unnecessarily rude to me to
use kallsyms_lookup_name in order to get at a static variable from another
file. Can't you instead add a global function to kernel/printk.c to return
the buffer?

Its possible, but it wont end up in Linus tree.

Hmm, so the idea is that because Linus doesn't like kernel debuggers, we just
obfuscate the code for any improvements to xmon and hope he doesn't notice?

Don't get me wrong, I think having dmesg in xmon is a good idea, but this is
probably not the best strategy of getting it in there.

	Arnd <><