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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:40:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

That is one of the reasons that crash dumps are useful.  Quite a few 
problems that customers hit are not easy to reproduce, but when they 
provide a dump file that can be loaded into gdb with the original 
kernel debugging info and the backtrace command issued and various 
bits of internal structures examined, usually a good hypothesis can 
be made for the cause.  Feed that back into a code audit and you end 
up fixing problems that are decidedly challenging.

		-ben
-- 
"Do you seek knowledge in time travel?"
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