From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27492 invoked by alias); 1 Jul 2008 11:04:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 27484 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jul 2008 11:04:58 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk (HELO pasmtpA.tele.dk) (80.160.77.114) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:04:32 +0000 Received: from ravnborg.org (0x535d98d8.vgnxx8.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [83.93.152.216]) by pasmtpA.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA658000DB; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:04:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ravnborg.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id ADA9F580D9; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:05:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:04:00 -0000 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Theodore Tso Cc: Roland McGrath , ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace Message-ID: <20080701110517.GB6914@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080630010423.GA7068@redhat.com> <20080630181959.GA7988@mit.edu> <20080630192533.GE21660@redhat.com> <20080630201031.GF7988@mit.edu> <20080630204219.GA6631@redhat.com> <20080701024140.GB28143@mit.edu> <20080701070746.C6DAD15420E@magilla.localdomain> <20080701101507.GB22717@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080701101507.GB22717@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q3/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:15:07AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > I've pulled apart RHEL's rpm macro magic before, and it's not a > pleasant wading through all of the files; maybe we can teach the > native kernel build infrastructure how to create debuginfo files so > that each distribution doesn't have to re-invent the wheel from > scratch, but rather can reuse common infrastructure in Kbuild.... What is needed to create debuginfo files? Seems like a simple thing to integrate in kbuild if this is per file or per module. If it is for the kernel as a whole things gets a bit more complex. Sam