From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:08:10 -0700
> Think upon the kgdb-over-ethernet case, please. The kernel hits a > breakpoint, the kgdb stub stops everything, sends a packet to the > debugging client, waits for a packet back.. This simply can't work if > we delay send/receive to the next softirq processing. Networking is asynchronous, kgdb-over-ethernet wants synchronous processing from an asynchronous subsystem. It is therefore no surprise that these two sets of requirements are at odds with each other and it simply isn't going to work very well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
