Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753539Ab2B0Lbx (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:31:53 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:4976 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752438Ab2B0Lbw (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:31:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4F4B699C.2020607@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:31:40 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Yao CC: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu , Jidong Xiao , david@lang.hm, Cong Wang , Kernel development list Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space? References: <4F4661D6.7030809@gmail.com> <20120224162109.1bbf157b@redhat.com> <20120225150940.GA3719@localhost> <4F497782.3060902@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 824 Lines: 19 Em 25-02-2012 22:29, Richard Yao escreveu: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > wrote: >> This is only partially true. The current debug tools available on the >> Kernel are not hard to deal with, and are not behind what's available >> on userspace. > > Is there documentation available for these tools? I would find that useful. See Documentation/. You'll see there lots of interesting things that could be used to debug a driver, including fixing performance issues on it: kdbg, remote console, perf, dynamic printk's, etc. Mauro. -- 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/