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Re: Enabling CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL



On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 12:31 -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Would it be possible to turn on CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL in the Debian kernel 
> for Wheezy?  It's a useful debugging option, and makes it easier to 
> implement useful tools like Ksplice that inspect the code and data 
> structures of the running kernel, in particular in relation to operating 
> on modules (one can use System.map to look up addresses for data 
> structures in the core kernel).  Most other major Linux distributions 
> have had CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL enabled in their kernels for some time now 
> (RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.).

Isn't this redundant with the linux-image-*-dbg packages?  Though those
are much larger.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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