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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:40:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Andreas Herrmann <AHERRMAN@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> 
> A dump mechanism within the kernel is a base for much easier
> kernel debugging.
> IMHO, analyzing a dump is much more effective than guessing
> a kernel bug solely with help of an oops message.

And imnsho, debugging the kernel on a source level is the way to do it.

Which is why it's not going to be me who merges it.

Read my emails.

		Linus

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