On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:58:34PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:

 On Sun, May 28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

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

quoted

quoted

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?

So lets just ask again for support in generic code for a dmesg command in xmon:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/28/32

I'd been planning to pester Torvalds/LKML on a regular basis until the
patch (or something else suitable) went in. Clearly, I'd failed to do
this. 

--linas

p.s. Belated apologies for failing to mention KDB; I assumed it would be 
"obvious" to those who know, and that by not mentioning KDB explicitly, 
I thought that the patch would have a better chance of acceptance (which
I expected to be low). Silly me.