Bug 35274 – gs-sources-2.4.23 has broken kdb patch

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Neil Katin 2003-12-07 11:05:48 UTC]

I tried to build gs-sources-2.4.23_pre8-r1 with kdb enabled.
This functionality is added by the
02_linux-2.4.22-xfs-2003-09-28.patch file.

The patch attempts to add kdb support, but does not include all
the symbols.  I started trying to find all the missing occurences,
but eventually I gave up.

The two ones I found were the defintion of KERN_KDB in
include/linux/sysctl.h, and the defintions of start___kallsyms
in arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S.

Clearly there are files missing from the patch, or the patch
has an unmet dependency on another path.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gs-sources-2.4.23_pre8-r1
2. enable CONFIG_KDB, CONFIG_KDB_MODULES, and CONFIG_KALLSYMS in the kernel
config file
3. build the kernel

[Comment 1 Neil Katin 2003-12-07 11:08:03 UTC]

Created attachment 21824 [details]
The config file successfully used to build the kernel


This file correctly built the kernel.  To demonstrate the bug, enable
the CONFIG_KDB, config_KDB_MODULES, and CONFIG_KALLSYMS config
settings.

[Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2004-01-20 15:28:18 UTC]

I have yet to get a working version of kdb, its normally left
out of xfs-sources , but slipped into this version