Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34

Larry McVoy
2002-09-16T00:50:22Z

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:34:05PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > This has nothing to do with a debugger, this is a different topic.
> > You actually want a crash dump analyzis tool, and so do I.
> > So, let's discuss that. I happen to get e-mails with oops in USB
> > callbacks pretty often, and they are always useless. It would be
> > possible to track them if off-stack memory was saved, perhaps.
> > However, to expect users to use debugger to collect this off-stack
> > information is a delusion.
>
> http://lkcd.sourceforge.net/
>
> Linux crash dumps, and includes an analysis tool...

I used to work with the guy behind this, at SGI. He was one of three
people in all of SGI that I wanted to hire after I left. I haven't played
with this yet but I'll bet you 100:1 odds that you'll like it if Matt
did it. He rocked at SGI.
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