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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> > I'm not suggesting that kernel.debug has to be part of CD 1, but I
> > believe it would make a worthwhile addition to (eg) the live
> > filesystem CD.
>
> Yeah, that's a good idea.  GNATS is full of PRs with panic strings but
> no tracebacks, and it can be time-consuming and difficult to get
> people to obtain them post-facto.  If we ship a kernel.debug with the
> release then we can explain in the release documentation how to use it
> to submit a useful PR.
>
> Kris

We should also probably finish seperating out DDB and have backtraces
automatically printed whenever any panic occurs.  Although that wouldn't
be as useful as a gdb backtrace, it would be a lot better than the useless
page fault panics filling gnats.

For clarification, "we" = people other than me. <g>

Mike "Silby" Silbersack