[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Allow non-interactive execution of KDL commands

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:25:40 +0200 CEST

Jan Klötzke <jan.kloetzke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Pardon my ignorance, but could you explain the purpose of these
> > patches? :-)
> Sure. :-) Currently it's not possible to execute a KDL statement from
> another
> driver, you can just enter the debugger and the _user_ has to enter
> some
> commands. Therefore I added kernel_debugger_exec() which executes a
> single
> KDL statement and returns. This is supposed to be used by the
> emergency
> module.
>
> Additionally the output of these executed statements is routed to
> syslog too
> which is also not the default.

Sorry, I missed your summary mail when I wrote that question.
Thanks for the explanation, anyway :-)

Bye,
   Axel.


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