--- On Wed, 10/6/10, luca ellero <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I have seen kernel symbols (talking in general, not sys_call_table),
>>>> appear in /proc/kallsyms in some version of kernel and not in others.
>>>> Symbol definition is same in both kernel revs.
>>>>
>>>> What makes symbol appear or not in /proc/kallsym
>>>
>>> It's a configuration option when you compile the kernel: CONFIG_KALLSYMS
>>
>> Not talking about /proc/kallsym file in general, but individual symbols
>> which sometime show up and sometime does not.
>
> Maybe you should also add CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
Let me give you an example.
Symbol inet_family_ops, appears in both 2.6.11 and 2.6.23 kernels. In both
instances it has same definition
static struct net_proto_family inet_family_ops = {
But, it appears in 2.6.23's /proc/kallsym and not in 2.6.11
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