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| author | Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> | 2005-11-07 01:01:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-07 07:53:54 -0800 |
| commit | 62a07e6e9e93eda88a6eeb5009fc46d44ca60281 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e5a0891a46b1d9864d5591a5961c63e1b818bea /Documentation/Changes | |
| parent | 55032eacdb3acf54f5ba2e4dd9205db2c5c0bce2 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-62a07e6e9e93eda88a6eeb5009fc46d44ca60281.tar.gz lwn-62a07e6e9e93eda88a6eeb5009fc46d44ca60281.zip | |
[PATCH] ksymoops related docs update
Update ksymoops related documentation to reflect current 2.6 reality.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index 783ddc3ce4e8..86b86399d61d 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -139,9 +139,14 @@ You'll probably want to upgrade. Ksymoops -------- -If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you'll need a 2.4 -version of ksymoops to decode the report; see REPORTING-BUGS in the -root of the Linux source for more information. +If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you may need the +ksymoops tool to decode it, but in most cases you don't. +In the 2.6 kernel it is generally preferred to build the kernel with +CONFIG_KALLSYMS so that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is +(this also produces better output than ksymoops). +If for some reason your kernel is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and +you have no way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then +you can still decode that Oops with ksymoops. Module-Init-Tools ----------------- |