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Re: kgdb going mainline

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Subject: Re: kgdb going mainline
From: Hedi Berriche <hedi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 01:44:30 +0000
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 20:54 Jay Lan wrote:
| 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?

Short story

    http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/kgdb_To_Merge_Or_Not_To_Merge

Not so short one

    http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/1/30/648104

Cheers,
Hedi.
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