From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] compact print_symbol() output
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:01:52 +0100
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On Tuesday 17 January 2006 16:01, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> I've often found symbolsize useful.  Not when looking at an oops
> from my own machine.  But when looking at an oops posted on LKML,
> from someone who most likely has a different .config and different
> compiler, different optimization and different inlining from mine.
> symbolsize is a good clue as to how close their kernel is to the
> one I've got built on my machine, how likely guesses I make based
> on mine will apply to theirs, and whereabouts in the function that
> it oopsed.

Yes that is why I want it too.

-Andi
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