From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15319 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2006 20:10:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 15309 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jan 2006 20:10:28 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:10:26 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0RKAOfa003896 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:10:24 -0500 Received: from potter.sfbay.redhat.com (potter.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.15]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0RKAN115108; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:10:24 -0500 Received: from [172.16.24.50] (bluegiant.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.24.50]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0RKAMhD013104; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:10:22 -0500 Message-ID: <43DA7D5F.20208@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:10:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] New inf-procfs module (replacing procfs) References: <20060113173921.GJ10275@adacore.com> <200601132027.k0DKRvSf021579@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060114033315.GL10275@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20060114033315.GL10275@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00456.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker wrote: > Hi Mark, > > >>It'd be great if you would be willing to do the cleanup. If not, >>could you give me two weeks to finish my (barely started) attempt to >>do it? > > > I think I can, if you tell me what you'd like to be done. Unfortunately, > I am about to take a few days off sometimes soon (it will be the end > of next week), and I will then be traveling so won't have time for it > before the end of January. Something we had always considered, but shied away from, is to actually split procfs.c into two separate modules: one for the old API, and one for the new. It's the only way you can really get rid of all those ifdefs, and if you're considering a major re-org anyway... Just putting out the idea. Michael