Re: [patch 2.6.15-current] i386: multi-column stack backtraces

From: Keith Owens
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 00:23:24 EST


Jan Engelhardt (on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:12:20 +0100 (MET)) wrote:
>> > Presumably this is going to bust ksymoops.
>>
>>Do people actually still use ksymoops for 2.6 kernels ?
>
>I think it was said often enough that people _should not_ use it for 2.6.
>Unfortunately, there are still some who do.

Some people use ksymoops because the kernel oops does not decode the
instructions. Some people use ksymoops because they run embedded
systems and cannot afford the kallsyms data. Others just use ksymoops
out of habit.

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