Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:52:46 -0800 | From | Thomas Zimmerman <> | Subject | Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? |
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On 21-Jan 01:31, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:13:55 +0000, > John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com> wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:53:28PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > >> Guess why these entries are in /proc/ksyms? > >> > >> c48a2300 __insmod_3c589_cs_S.bss_L4 [3c589_cs] > > > >and quite often the user has unloaded / loaded modules in the meantime > >and the oops is useless. > > /var/log/ksymoops. I added the code and documented it nicely, man > insmod or ksymoops. It's not my fault if nobody reads the docs! > > >It would be nice if klogd's oops detection just passed everything to ksymoops > >untouched, and stored everything somewhere using -m > > It would be better if klogd got out of the way completely. Everything > is stored, just created /var/log/ksymoops.
Isn't part of the problem with klogd mangling is that is sort of works? Change the format so that klogd doesn't touch it and that gets _wrong_ Oops reports out of the way. [you do great work, now make someone else do some too!]
Just my $0.02, from a thankful user.
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