Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:51520 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754766AbZH0CaF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:30:05 -0400 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so622553bwz.37 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:30:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <45e8e6c40908261903r1e495ee6tb69277d99aa83e2b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4a5cf0b4.F1C7R/E9sD5tpPd2%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <4A94B01E.9040309@gmail.com> <4A94C3E9.6070409@lwfinger.net> <4A95AA64.20502@gmail.com> <3ace41890908261538s6818b56ax56cca5af18398dbc@mail.gmail.com> <4A95C128.5000405@gmail.com> <45e8e6c40908261903r1e495ee6tb69277d99aa83e2b@mail.gmail.com> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:29:46 +0200 Message-ID: <69e28c910908261929o64da49b7qefc89bb46a243e33@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix for kernel oops when unloading with LEDs enabled To: Andrey Yurovsky Cc: Richard Farina , Hin-Tak Leung , Larry Finger , John W Linville , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Hin-Tak Leung , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Andrey Yurovsky wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Richard Farina wrote: >> Again, I'm not trying to point my finger blaming someone, I'm trying to help >> fix a problem. ?I am traveling for the next few days, when I get home to my >> camera I hope you are all calm enough to help me troubleshoot this bug so we >> can find a solution instead of accusing each other of accusing each other. > > you may want to try kexec in place of having to take photos of the > kernel panic output. ?This will enable you to load a crash-recovery > kernel, which will be booted automatically once you've successfully > reproduced the problem. ?From there you can use gdb together with > /proc/vmcore and your kernel image to reconstruct what you'd see in > dmesg and paste the entire oops. ?Please see > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details and use > Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt to give gdb a "dmesg" macro. Or use the "crash" utility (a wrapper for gdb), which can directly extract the kernel log from vmcore. > > ?-Andrey > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)