Re: [PATCH] klogd core

Sean Young wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:47:38PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Sean Young wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:16:31PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > > Sean Young wrote:
> > > > > With /proc/kallsyms disabled in the kernel, klogd crashes. fclose(NULL) is
> > > > > executed.
> > > >
> > > > Hmbf! Do you know since which version?
> > >
> > > Looking at the history, I assume klogd 1.5.
> >
> > Err... sorry, I was more interested in the kernel version. :)
>
> At least since 2.6.20 there is option CONFIG_KALLSYMS which can only be
> disabled if CONFIG_EMBEDDED is enabled. Not having your symbols available
> is pretty useless as you don't get function names in Oopses, etc. I was

That makes sense. However, don't you run busybox-syslogd in embedded
environments?

The symbols help explain oopses. klogd and an external debugger are
able to decode the addresses with help of the symbol table.

Regards,

        Joey

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