Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Availability of kdb | Date | Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:07:37 +0200 |
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Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Ehh? And exactly _how_ would a debugger help it. > > > > > > Especially as Alan quoted an example of a driver bug that didn't get fixed > > > for several months because the maintainer didn't have the hardware. > > > > > > What would a debugger have done? > > > > Let the end user give me essential answers on what was happening at the failure > > point. Think of it as a crash dump tool with extra controls > [snip] > > If this is your primary argument for a kernel debugger, a 'crash dump tool > with extra controls', then why not just cleanly implement a 'crash dump > tool with extra controls'.
Where did he say 'primary argument'?
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