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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2.6] linux/README update
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:18:20 -0500 (EST), 
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> wrote:
>- - You can use the "ksymoops" program to make sense of the dump. This
>- utility can be downloaded from
>+ - If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump
>+ as is, otherwise you will have to use the "ksymoops" program to make
>+ sense of the dump. This utility can be downloaded from

ksymoops is still useful even when CONFIG_KALLSYMS is on. ksymoops
decodes the Code: line, kallsyms does not. Also kallsyms only handles
code addresses[*], ksymoops handles all symbols.

[*] Rusty's definition of "all symbols" does not not match mine.
kallsyms in 2.6 should really be "ksomesyms".

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