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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:49:58 -0600
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: What's left over.
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:59:34PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
>
> > To me this says "LKCD is stupid". Which means that I'm not going to apply
> > it, and I'm going to need some real reason to do so - ie being proven
> > wrong in the field.
> >
> > (And don't get me wrong - I don't mind getting proven wrong. I change my
> > opinions the way some people change underwear. And I think that's ok).
> 
> It would be most unfortunate if the existance of netdump is used as a
> reason to deny LKCD's inclusion, or to simply dismiss LKCD as stupid.

What he really wants is for Andrew or Alan or someone else he trusts
to merge it, get actual field results, and declare it useful. If
people start visibly passing around crash dump results on l-k and
solving problems with them, that'll help too. Until then all he has is
his gut feel to go on.

-- 
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