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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com>,        "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org ml" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: GDB plugin
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>>>>> ">" == Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> writes:

>> I think the api is not a big trouble, the Linux kernel's api is always
>> change.  But lkm is still alive.  I use some ifdef to make KGTP can be
>> work from 2.6.18 to upstream.  I think if GDB can supply some
>> interface to get the api version, support different api is not very
>> hard.

I'm skeptical, but I suppose as long as the rule is "if it breaks, too
bad", then it is ok.

Tom