[lug] kgdb/panic question {no filter}

[D. Stimits]

Wilson, Rodger wrote:
> Recently I have been having a problem where my driver has been crashing
> occasionally.  When I worked at Sun, we used to collect the core files from
> the machine.  Is there some way to turn on core dumping in Linux? 
> 
> For some reason I seem to remember that SGI had added this feature to the
> Linux kernel. 
> 
> Thanks in advance 

I almost forgot...even without a kernel debugger, you are not dead in 
the water with an OOPS. The OOPS message, if copied verbatim, can be 
passed through ksymoops to get stack information.

D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com