From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-GM-THRID: 10414332051456 X-Google-Groups: outreachy-kernel X-Google-Thread: 9ca63f596c,14f284b32a4ff3e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid9ca63f596c,domainid0,private,googlegroup X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Received: by 10.194.71.227 with SMTP id y3mr5152856wju.3.1427751558734; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.152.88.50 with SMTP id bd18ls651112lab.108.gmail; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.152.19.67 with SMTP id c3mr7627581lae.7.1427751558184; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com (mail-wi0-x22a.google.com. [2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c8si890142wiw.1.2015.03.30.14.39.18 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Received: by mail-wi0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id ne17so1557097wic.0 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=LLAU3s6yhiUHicLoYMZuh07rzzsXLbnoNFsmnY7FkoU=; b=acTToV708auVdkVLbbApAxt1dnU1lndRGtYcVBUKUBF2GsVJ6IKQNJLmD2s1qzdY7f gm3nrtZfVj6pEyv/k8dnSnNIUSDujjn50GXkh6MwDKXF7NJNqopZIVCUvkQHH01RRTEc dJFZAaCANvB1j0MG5lb4lrXrdDqoMyqaUhLOVwkB9M0U22rLgrkESVxx1aILZPKFLjQF GfWFJWhDe3z3020Bqr5RQ/VpSnFP7LNmiCumUCm4WGYQOS+tT4eFJqeJ/ZowG1jhLyj+ EWofaRd67ScFND+30MIE0MV5QPOBz2dM3Lme2wBZ00bXJHiH7V5pr5lTiPvUXqr51vSf QBnw== X-Received: by 10.194.78.144 with SMTP id b16mr66410636wjx.18.1427751558089; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from localhost.localdomain ([41.130.215.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m9sm18035771wiz.24.2015.03.30.14.39.16 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:39:14 +0200 From: Aya Mahfouz To: Ksenija =?utf-8?Q?Stanojevi=C4=87?= Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Some general questions Message-ID: <20150330213914.GA2531@waves> References: <20150330184007.GA2862@waves> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 08:55:06PM +0200, Ksenija Stanojević wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Aya Mahfouz > wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I had a couple of questions lingering in my head for quite some time > > now. I'm reading lots of articles but I'm interested in people sharing > > their experiences as answers to the following questions: > > > > Is it possible to setup a simple cloud-based compile farm? Are there > > guides or projects that would help with that? My question comes after > > seeing Fengguang Wu's kbuild testing farm reports. > > > > From experience, how do you usually debug new drivers? What tools do you > > use? > > I used nm tool and addr2line. > Nice! I did not try addr2line before... > >What do you think of tools like kgdb and kdb? What do you do for > > example if testing a driver freezes the computer it is running > > on. > > > I rebooted it by force, by pressing power button. > Yeah... This is what I do in most cases. If I'm lucky enough, I switch quickly to another screen and log in as root then kill the process... > Ksenija > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Kind Regards, > > Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "outreachy-kernel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to outreachy-kernel+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/outreachy-kernel/20150330184007.GA2862%40waves. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Kind Regards, Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz