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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
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To: Jakob Engblom <jakob@virtutech.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add 'reverse' capability query to remote protocol (qSupported).
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Jakob Engblom wrote:
>>> [...]  it
>>> would mean that anybody with a deployed target that doesn't yet
>>> support the new "qSupported" probe would have to make his users
>>> enable them by hand.
>>>
>>> (why I cc:ed Jakob and Greg.)
>>  From our side we're fine with it defaulting to off and we'll add support
>> for new probe (we haven't released anything yet, so it's fine).
> 
> I agree that it makes sense to default to off. 
> 
> To support gdb7, we will need to update our side anyway. So there is no point in
> trying to be nice. Better to fail early and fail often, as far as I am
> concerned.

So be it.
Committed.