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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 23:57:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: "Craig I. Hagan" <hagan@cih.com>
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Subject: Re: What's left over.
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On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Craig I. Hagan wrote:

> If it becomes apparent through empirical data that crash dumps are a useful
> tool, I'm sure that Linus will become far more amenable. Until then, lets let
> him handle all of his other work which needs to get done.

Since he doesn't have the problem he will ignore the proof. Better be sure
we can generate ksymoops reports from the dump, so we can post them asking
for help. Anything else will get the old "I don't use that tool, can't
help." Or like Nvidia problems the "try it without the crash dump code,"
routine.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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