linux-kernel - Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space?

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Message-ID: <4F4B699C.2020607@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:31:40 -0300
From:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
To:	Richard Yao <ryao@...stonybrook.edu>
CC:	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
	Jidong Xiao <jidong.xiao@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can we move device drivers into user-space?

Em 25-02-2012 22:29, Richard Yao escreveu:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> <mchehab@...hat.com> wrote:
>> This is only partially true. The current debug tools available on the
>> Kernel are not hard to deal with, and are not behind what's available
>> on userspace.
> 
> Is there documentation available for these tools? I would find that useful.

See Documentation/. You'll see there lots of interesting things that could
be used to debug a driver, including fixing performance issues on it: kdbg,
remote console, perf, dynamic printk's, etc.

Mauro.
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