On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 15:35 -0500, Tim Abbott wrote: > 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>. So I think you're saying that you need this to make ksplice work. I would be much more interested in helping you to do that if you would start releasing source to ksplice patches. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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