From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261749AbVGTA0w (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:26:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261768AbVGTA0v (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:26:51 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.203]:877 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261749AbVGTA0G convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:26:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=doOUPxrjWF2aw+wgxOf7M9F5qbxWVqNctWozZ6GyE/UJnl91WL26TmAb5gKaw0N/j4zV0LutCuVH1y1aAAujNytF+fW5sNX7t0i+Sl8OFEHe4tLV5LsY1wYo4WKjcVjG47xEk8W5Vr2R0ejEKbS1jSS6hfmP+FLFPp5HJReQV+s= Message-ID: <9a87484905071917256e3b71cf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:25:41 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: Jesper Juhl To: omb@bluewin.ch Subject: Re: how to be (SAFE) a kernel developer ? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <42DD7644.5040304@khandalf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <5a3ed56505071807357fc419e7@mail.gmail.com> <9a87484905071818116f7cb0de@mail.gmail.com> <42DD7644.5040304@khandalf.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/19/05, Brian O'Mahoney 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 :-) -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html