Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:25:41 +0200 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: how to be (SAFE) a kernel developer ? |
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On 7/19/05, Brian O'Mahoney <omb@khandalf.com> wrote: > > To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) ^^^ That's a bad habbit - makes it impossible to send a proper reply back to all the recipients. LKML is a public list, please use To: and CC: so it's possible to reply to the proper people, and don't trim the CC: list please.
> Jesper Juhl wrote: ... > > much useful advice, almost all of which I agree with _BUT_ > > please do NOT debug kernel mods on your 'main-box', where your > filesystems live. unless you like to live dangerously and make > perfect backups you don't mind spending lots of hours restoring, > You are right. A sacrificial box or at least proper backups of any important stuff is important. I didn't write that since I figured it to be obvious, but I guess I should have spelled it out anyway. Thank you for making that bit clear :-)
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