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SubjectRe: [IDEA] Developers: your opinion badly needed ! (Was: [PATCH] /proc/config.gz)

Perhaps the system map (and .config too) could be stuck onto to kernel in
such a fashion that they dont get loaded into memory. Lilo would prob then
need to be modified to pass to the kernel 'who it is'. Then there could be
a sysctl to request the filename of the currently running kernel..


On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

>
> Horst von Brand writes:
> > [trimmed]
> >> On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 09:40:45PM +0200, Riccardo Facchetti wrote:
>
> >>> This evening I have posted the patch for the System.map only.
> >>> In the next days, if I see that there is some interest,
> >>> I can include the .config data too.
> >
> > Yet again: This is only useful (in general) if you have several kernels,
>
> Stop thinking only about yourself. There are lots of people that don't
> understand the importance of having a correct System.map in the right
> location under the right filename. These people produce bogus oops reports
> which waste kernel developer's time and dilute crash patterns.
>
> > and then the problem is just shifted form "Which .config/System.map/etc
> > file goes with the running kernel" to "Which one is the running kernel".
>
> /proc/ksyms_internal
>
> > Folks, it is much harder to trim out unneeded stuff than adding yet
> > another cool feature that just the author and his buddies use.
>
> Agreed, but you will be using this. At least procps, klogd, and ksymoops
> will be modified to use symbols provided by the kernel.
>
> I expect the 2.2 kernel to be popular at least until winter 2001.
> It's going to be used by 10 million people, many of whom have no
> clue about why a System.map file is important. These people will
> make feeble attempts at bug reporting. One thing they will have is
> enough RAM to make System.map totally insignificant. Think in terms
> of an average consumer PC with hundreds of MB of RAM.
>
>
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