Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932142AbVJEUhL (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:37:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932176AbVJEUhK (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:37:10 -0400 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.197]:63707 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932142AbVJEUhJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:37:09 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=qmAiVYtircGxdmW8xYbyFnZwYOIrk0AFgXoBMhW2v7t2iKQ/X+z0Kb4XvXDEyRrmutBikK0NrXx0Ue9qzTvY43jgJnIxNVgRgLvApWFjd3FWLxR1r/ageG450KbejJY1cY5/F0qvF/C6ZE17K6poEuxQZCrndrOnpdui+7zAIkM= From: Jesper Juhl To: "linux-kernel" Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: ksymoops should no longer be used to decode Oops messages Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:39:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Chris Ricker , chris.ricker@genetics.utah.edu, Linus Torvalds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510052239.43492.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1320 Lines: 38 Document the fact that ksymoops should no longer be used to decode Oops messages. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl --- Documentation/Changes | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.14-rc3-git5-orig/Documentation/Changes 2005-10-03 21:54:50.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.14-rc3-git5/Documentation/Changes 2005-10-05 22:35:44.000000000 +0200 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Eine deutsche Version dieser Datei finden Sie unter . -Last updated: October 29th, 2002 +Last updated: October 05th, 2005 Chris Ricker (kaboom@gatech.edu or chris.ricker@genetics.utah.edu). @@ -139,9 +139,8 @@ Ksymoops -------- -If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you'll need a 2.4 -version of ksymoops to decode the report; see REPORTING-BUGS in the -root of the Linux source for more information. +With a 2.4 kernel you need ksymoops to decode a kernel Oops message. With +2.6 kernels ksymoops is no longer needed and should not be used. Module-Init-Tools ----------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/