On 2/18/10, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding is that klogd reads the symbols to translate kernel
> oops to symbols. I think I saw that the kernel is now doing that
> internally. In that case, there is no need for klogd to read System.map
> at all.
That is what Linus said in reply to an email:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, linux fan wrote:
>
> "[PATCH] init/version.c: Define version_string only if"
> causes sysklogd to report "Cannot find map"
But isn't that what we _want_.
If we have CONFIG_KALLSYMS, then we do _not_ want sysklogd to try to
interpret kernel addresses, because the kernel will do that itself.
So the sysklogd "Cannot find map" warning is a feature, not a bug.
I think.
Linus
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