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[Bill Anderson <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janne Karhunen wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 20:57, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>   
> > why is ksymoops still provided with openSUSE? The tool is AFAICT
> > obsolete since the kernel does its own decoding since 2.6.x...
> >     
>
> It's been useful at least to me as I have had to look older
> kernels a lot as well :/
>
>
>   
The inclusion of kallsyms is a kernel compile option. To reduce space 
some embedded systems might choose to not create kallsyms, or the proc 
file system. In those case, ksymoops would be useful. At least for the 
symbols that are part of the compiled kernel. Dynamically loaded modules 
would be an issue. However, an embedded system may compile all modules 
into the kernel.

Bill Anderson
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