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Re: [PATCH] rtl8187: Fix for kernel oops when unloading with LEDs enabled

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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Andrey Yurovsky<andrey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Richard Farina<sidhayn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Again, I'm not trying to point my finger blaming someone, I'm trying to help
>> fix a problem.  I am traveling for the next few days, when I get home to my
>> camera I hope you are all calm enough to help me troubleshoot this bug so we
>> can find a solution instead of accusing each other of accusing each other.
>
> you may want to try kexec in place of having to take photos of the
> kernel panic output.  This will enable you to load a crash-recovery
> kernel, which will be booted automatically once you've successfully
> reproduced the problem.  From there you can use gdb together with
> /proc/vmcore and your kernel image to reconstruct what you'd see in
> dmesg and paste the entire oops.  Please see
> Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details and use
> Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt to give gdb a "dmesg" macro.

Or use the "crash" utility (a wrapper for gdb), which can directly
extract the kernel log from vmcore.

>
>  -Andrey
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