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, unless you want to specialise in file systems, but maybe do want to work on device drivers use a --- sacrifical system, and, for example NFS mount everything, on it from your main box, otherwise use a cheap local disk just for your fs stuff then when you blow it there is no FS damage and you don't need to wait for FSCK, or Journal Replay, when your fs works you can live more dangerously ;-) You will also need a main system, and serial X-over cable, if you want to use some of the increasing number of tools, kdb, kgdb, kprobes .... that assume a 2 box setup Finally, Linus personally dislikes debuggers, ... 'read the source Luke' so patches to the mm or mainstream should be grounded an source code analysis, not it works or xxx has 0x1234 in it. -- mit freundlichen Grüßen, Brian. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
