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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 17:15:41 +0200
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On Monday 16 September 2002 11:06, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > I did. Matt probably did. But I didn't see you fixing it with your
> > > debugger.
> > 
> > I am setting up the debugger to work on the DAC960.
> 
> See, even though I'm not fundamentally against using kernel debuggers, I
> think this is very wrong. Where are you now? You are just learning about
> the bio interface and the changes needed to make it run. And this is
> definitely the most wrong point to start using a debugger, and can only
> result in a dac960 that works by trial and error.

I am not using the debugger to learn about bio, I use LXR for that.  I
am using the debugger because of the nature of the bugs I expect and
already seen.  Jens, I have 27 years of professional programming
experience, you do not have to tell me when to use a debugger and when
not to.

-- 
Daniel
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