Enough, please! ... I'm afraid that I've seen too many people fix bugs by looking at debugger output, and that almost inevitably leads to fixing the symptoms rather than the underlying problems. ... "Use the Source, Luke, use the Source. Be one with the code.". Think of Luke Skywalker discarding the automatic firing system when closing on the deathstar, and firing the proton torpedo (or whatever) manually. _Then_ do you have the right mindset for fixing kernel bugs. ... Linus Torvalds