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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] markup_oops.pl and GDB: Let GDB can handle kernel  oops stack message
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On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:40:16 +0800 Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I make a patch for markup_oops.pl to make it can convert the oops
> message to GDB command.
> And make a patch for GDB to add a new target empty which level is same
> with corelow target. It can save the memory and reg operation command's
> value and send it to GDB as the inferior's value. Then GDB can parse the
> oops message directly.

How useful is the kernel patch when one is using an unpatched gdb?