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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 01:59:15 +0000
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On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:54 Hedi Berriche wrote:
| 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

And this one provides insight on the backup behind kgdb

http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/x86_Architecture_Merges_in_2.6.25

Cheers,
Hedi.
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