| Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:11:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: Availability of kdb |
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > For things like driver debugging its the only way to work. Hardware simply does > not work like the manual says and no amount of Zen contemplation will ever > make you at one with a 3c905B ethernet card.
This is probably the best argument for a kernel debugger.
Adding debug code (printk, if/then/BUG() etc) to track down a driver bug sometimes changes behaviour enough to turn it into a heisenbug. In these cases a kernel debugger is the best way to swat it.
-Dan
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