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SubjectRe: [IDEA] Developers: your opinion badly needed ! (Was: [PATCH] /proc/config.gz)
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> /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.

Albert, don't forget user-space :)
I see that lot of people is remembering me that all this thing can be done
all in user-space, and I am starting to think that user-space is te real
answer. Anyway some routines that:

1) read /proc/sys/kernel/boot_image_path
2) open the image (if available)
3) check the match between /proc/cdc32 and bzImage's cdc32 (or md5sum)
4) read the data from the bzImage just opened (if cdc32 succeeds) and
display it nicely

could do the job just as well as /proc/ksyms_internal ... and may be they
can do a better job since they are just user-space routines and do not
involve kernel coding (as alredy explained ... still no choice is made).

Ciao,
Riccardo.


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