Re: lan based kgdb

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 18:54:09 EST


On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 04:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But it should be possible to do a really simple UDP-packets-only thing
> for kgdb. Sure, it may lose packets. Tough. Don't debug over a WAN,
> and try to keep a clean direct network connection if you are worried
> about it. But we want kernel printk's to be synchronous anyway, without
> timeouts etc.

And in the real world you end up back with TCP. Been there, done that
with network debugger tools before.

Alan

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