Hi Daniel,

On 2020/5/19 19:40, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:26:06PM +0800, Wei Li wrote:
>> 'KDBFLAGS' is an internal variable of kdb, it is combined by 'KDBDEBUG'
>> and state flags. But the user can define an environment variable named
>> 'KDBFLAGS' too, so let's make it undefinable to avoid confusion.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei...@huawei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
> 
> I took a quick look at this and find myself thinking of KDBFLAGS as
> something of a misfeature.
> 
> I think I'd rather get kdb_env to show the value we wrote into
> KDBDEBUG.
> 
> Sure this means we cannot use KDBDEBUG to look at the least significant
> 16-bits but I think anyone who is debugging kdb itself should know
> enough to use `md4c1 kdb_flags` to read those anyway.
> 
> 

Agree. That will be more clear with no confusion. Currently,
KDBFLAGS will be shown only when KDBDEBUG is set, that is weird too.
So, let's just make it simple.
I can fix it as you suggested in the next post.

Thanks,
Wei


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