Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752393AbWLQKtn (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:49:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752394AbWLQKtn (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:49:43 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:43097 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752392AbWLQKtm (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:49:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:49:27 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Michael K. Edwards" , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 Message-ID: <20061217104927.GA28629@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20061213195226.GA6736@kroah.com> <20061216090532.GF4049@ucw.cz> <20061216110414.GA1862@lazybastard.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061216110414.GA1862@lazybastard.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 21 Hi! > > Well.. it is easier to debug in userspace. While bad hw access can > > still kill the box, bad free() will not, and most bugs in early > > developent are actually of 2nd kind. > > Isn't that what qemu is for? I do not think you can reasonably debug driver for new hardware under qemu. Anyway, doing it in userspace is just convenient. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/