Re: Is the current KOD code useful?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-20T20:29:38Z

Copying this to Fernando, since I belatedly noticed Fernando's entry
in MAINTAINERS for this today. Oops!

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:52:27AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The Kernel Object Display framework never really took off, as far as I can
> see. It's got exactly one supported OS in the GDB sources, which is just
> called Cisco (presumably IOS). It's had no non-mechanical changes since it
> was contributed, around 2000.
>
> I'm fixing up the target_xfer_partial interface, as discussed yesterday.
> It carries around a pretty sizable wart for KOD involving querying the
> buffer size (which as far as I can tell doesn't work, anyway). Rather than
> fix it, if this is obsolete we should remove it.
>
> Does anyone but Cisco use this? Do even they still use it in its current
> form? I have no idea if anyone on this list can answer these questions;
> if no one can, I suspect this code has reached the end of its useful life.
>
> For now I'm just going to skip over that file.

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