Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:42:06 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: [IDEA] Developers: your opinion badly needed ! (Was: [PATCH] /proc/config.gz) |
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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. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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