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Subject: kgdb going mainline
From: Jay Lan <jlan@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:39:30 -0800
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Kgdb is in Andrew's mm tree and heading to Linus' tree.

I thought the reason KDB was rejected was because they did not want
a kernel debugger at a crashed system? The philosophy of kdump is
"freeze the system, take a dump and reboot."

Anyone knows of why kgdb was OK to KDB critics?

Cheers,
 - jay

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