The various dumping projects like lkcd and the s390 VM dump require debug information for the kernel, and they're using a mechanism that compiles a small file containing nothing but includes for interesting types into a Kerntypes file for the debugger.
Unfortunately the various current ways to generate it are a little messy and thus we don't have support for it in mainline. As a clean way to implement it and supports multiple files that can be linked into Kerntypes (e.g. arch or subsystem-specific) I'd like to suggest the following additions to the kernel build system: kerntypes-y += <object files> KERNTYPEFLAGS += <compile flags> Which build all objects listed in kerntypes-y with the CFLAGS from KERNTYPEFLAGS (defaulting to CFLAGS) into a top-level Kerntypes file. Unfortunately I'm a little lost in the current kbuild infrastructure so some help would be very welcome. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
