Re: A more accurate System.map, including modules
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > Suggestion: make insmod log the location of each module in the system
> > log, or have the kernel output that information ("kernel: loaded
> > module foo at 0xe0801130). Then one could use that information from
> > the system log to decode the oops, without involving /proc/ksyms.
>
> It seems people dislike the klogd idea, even if it does everything
> that ksymoops is proposing to do. Why? It seems to me (a modified)
> klogd has the advantage of not requiring you to do anything to extract
> a meaningful log.
>
For one thing: dmesg often works even when syslogd/klogd doesn't, and
I want to be able to decode my dmesg dumps! Furthermore, even if I
have to write my kernel messages down by pencil and paper I want to be
able to decode them, later, offline.
-hpa