Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 2002 01:33:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Daniel Berlin <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 |
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 September 2002 21:03, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On 10 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > It drops you politely into the kernel debugger, you fix up the values > > > and step over it. If you want to debug with zen mind power and printk > > > feel free. For the rest of us BUG() is fine on SMP > > > > Ok, a show of hands.. > > > > Of the millions (whatever) of Linux machines, how many have a kernel > > debugger attached? Count them. > > Eh, mine is getting one attached to it right now.
Me too.
> It's getting more > popular, and it would be more popular yet if it weren't considered some > dirty little secret, or somehow unmanly.
Reminds me of "Suns boot fast" (do a google search on it, and read the first thing that comes up).
> > Let's try a different show of hands: How many users would be happier if > they knew that kernel developers are using modern techniques to improve > the quality of the kernel? > > Of course, I use the term "modern" here loosely, since kdb and kgdb are > really only 80's technology. Without them, we're stuck in the 60's. Moving from the stone to the bronze age, one day at a time.
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