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SubjectRe: Building .config into the kernel

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > kernel image you booted, etc. For instance, you're debugging a machine
> > with an uptime of 120 days, and the admin you're helping doesn't know
> > which kernel he booted.. It's also not available at boot time, which is
>
> If the admin doesnt know which kernel he booted, he hasn't got symbol tables
> or .config data. In those cases I wouldnt even bother debugging it much

he has symbols, in /proc/ksyms. That together with /proc/config.gz enables
us to extrapolate the oops.

-- mingo


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