Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: [kbuild-devel] sorting out the kerntypes mess

2005-02-11 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Dunnersdag 10 Februar 2005 17:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Linking it into vmlinux would increase vmlinux size, which is exactly what the Kerntypes approach is trying to avoid. Well, building the whole kernel with -gstabs or similar will enlarge the binary by factor ten or more, which should

Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: [kbuild-devel] sorting out the kerntypes mess

2005-02-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:16:35PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On S?nndag 30 Januar 2005 18:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote: So you expect kerntypes-y := file.o to be present in one or a few places outside arch/ And then in one or a few files within arch/ the arch specific types are

Re: [kbuild-devel] sorting out the kerntypes mess

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Christoph 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

Re: [kbuild-devel] sorting out the kerntypes mess

2005-01-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:34:48PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: First trying to understand exactly what you want. So you expect kerntypes-y := file.o to be present in one or a few places outside arch/ And then in one or a few files within arch/ the arch specific types are brought in with