>> > On Wednesday 06 August 2008 01:19,
jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
>> wrote:
>
>> > That would be great if you do work on kgdb... But I guess I do miss
>> > the point, then. Is there a technical difference with kgdb that cannot
>> > be worked around, a difference of opinion with maintainers, a wish to
>> > have mdb features at short notice?
>>
>> Nick, its OK. There have been 27,453 downloads of the patches from my
>> ftp
>> server since yesterday when I osted it -- from what I am seeing people
>> are
>> voting with their feet. People can get it and I even posted it t
>> SourceForge as well. After ten years of working on Linux I thougt it
>> would be nice for something I wrote to end up there. It will happen
>> when
>> its time. As it stands, people are using it and it is going to help a
>> lot
>> of folks, which is what this is all about.
>>
>> :-)
>
> That's all well and good :). But it didn't exactly answer my question.
> My question was not what is the point of you writing these patches, but
> what is the point of merging it into the kernel (over the alternatives).
> It may seem like a trivial question, but it is one that must be answered
> in order to be considered to get merged.
>
