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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] scripts/gdb: Add lx-dmesg command
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 06:06:13PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This pokes into the log buffer of the debugged kernel, dumping it to the
> gdb console. Helping in case the target should or can no longer execute
> dmesg itself.

Very useful, as this got very painful when the log buffer was changed
a few releases ago.

-Andi