Re: Announce: kdb v4.4 is available for kernel 2.6.10

Keith Owens
2005-01-24T15:34:52Z

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:21:08 -0000,
gowda_avinash@emc.com wrote:
>All:
>I tried to get Kdb working on SuSe 9 ia64 box (kernel version
>2.6.5-7.111.19). Turns out that the keyboard/machine goes into a hang state.
>I have a usb keyboard!
>
>Googling around I found that Keith had disabled the USB keyboard support
>some time back due to changes in some APIs (kernel version
>linux-2.6.5-SLES9_SP1_BRANCH).
>
>Is this something that could be a cause for my problem? Should I think about
>upgrading my kernel to 2.6.10 (hoping that the issue's been fixed in this
>version)?

The USB keyboard support in KDB was written by HP, because their
systems have USB keyboards. I have no hardware to test on, so I have
to rely on HP to keep the USB patches in KDB up to date. That has not
happened recently.