Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752566Ab2FKRRm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:17:42 -0400 Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:44085 "EHLO mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752154Ab2FKRRk (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:17:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4FD6280B.2030105@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:16:59 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anil Nair CC: prasannatsmkumar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Break point not hit while debugging linux kernel with kgdb References: <4FD39A7F.9020106@mvista.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1272 Lines: 38 Hello. On 10-06-2012 8:30, Anil Nair wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: >> Yeah, KGDB was accepted into kernel exactly for more "poorly fixed >> patches" to appear. :-) > I was under the impression that maintainers would never recommend > kgdb, so never learned to use it. > If you could guide me and Prasanna on how to use kgdb that would be > helpful :). For the starters, Prasanna should ask his KGDB question in the right mailing list, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net. > If you were saying it sarcastically, then i failed to > understand it . :P. Yes, there was sarcasm. If KGDB was only providing for "poorly fixed patches", it would have been hardly included in the kernel. >>> You have to use gdbserver >> gdbserver is only good for debugging the applications. > I never knew that..!. Besides, there's not much difference between remotely debugging applications via gdbserver and remotely debugging kernel via KGDB. WBR, Sergei -- 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/