On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:40:28PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And imnsho, debugging the kernel on a source level is the way to do it.
>
> Which is why it's not going to be me who merges it.
>
> Read my emails.
That is one of the reasons that crash dumps are useful. Quite a few
problems that customers hit are not easy to reproduce, but when they
provide a dump file that can be loaded into gdb with the original
kernel debugging info and the backtrace command issued and various
bits of internal structures examined, usually a good hypothesis can
be made for the cause. Feed that back into a code audit and you end
up fixing problems that are decidedly challenging.
-ben
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