Messages in this thread | | | From | Fabio Erculiani <> | Subject | [IDEA] Enable debugging in userspace? | Date | Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:54:42 +0100 |
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Today, one idea is floating around me and bugging my brain (read: headache). If I could be a newbie, and if I have a problem with the latest and greatest linux distro, I start googling and looking for a solution. The problem is that someone write that I have to enable debugging mode in kernel configuration, recompile everything and reboot. That's quite impossible for a newbie, isn't it? So, why don't add an option to enable/disable debugging mode in sysfs?
Like:
/* DEBUG MODE ON */ echo "1" > /sys/kernel/debugging/debug_mode /* DEBUG MODE OFF */ echo "0" > /sys/kernel/debugging/debug_mode
I know that debugging code might (remove "might") increase the kernel size, but men, we have >256MB of RAM and >1GB of hard drive space.
I'm not subscribed to the ML but I read that on lkml.org
BR, -- Fabio Erculiani www.lxnaydesign.net RR4/RR64 Developer - Gentoo made easy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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