Bug#660288: Please enable CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL

[Tim Abbott <tim.abbott@oracle.com>]

Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist

(Moving this topic from a debian-kernel thread to the BTS).

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.).

The discussion so far of why this option is useful on the debian-kernel 
thread is at:
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2012/01/msg01017.html>.

        -Tim Abbott