Keith Owens wrote:
>
> ksymoops was meant to be separate from the kernel. It is separate in
> 2.3 but Alan Cox did not like the idea of tearing it out of the 2.2
> kernels so we settled for a message instead. The code in kernel 2.2
> scripts/ksymoops is way out of date.
Okay, now we have rife confusion. Maybe this should be mentioned
somewhere? Saying it is obsolete is one thing. Maybe it should
say it is completely useless. I fully support ripping it out
considering at the moment it can only confuse people.
> ksymoops 2.3.3 works on all kernels from 2.0 onwards. But if other
> code like klogd stamps on the report before it gets to ksymoops, there
> is nothing I can do about it. That is why there is a patch in the
> ksymoops directory against klogd, to preserve the data that ksymoops
> need.
Again, could it say this somewhere? And what exactly in the report
do klogd stomp on?
Martijn
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