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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:52:46 -0800
From: Thomas Zimmerman <thomas@zimres.net>
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Subject: Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?
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On 21-Jan 01:31, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:13:55 +0000,=20
> John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com> wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:53:28PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> >> Guess why these entries are in /proc/ksyms?
> >>=20
> >> c48a2300 __insmod_3c589_cs_S.bss_L4	[3c589_cs]
> >
> >and quite often the user has unloaded / loaded modules in the meantime
> >and the oops is useless.
>=20
> /var/log/ksymoops.  I added the code and documented it nicely, man
> insmod or ksymoops.  It's not my fault if nobody reads the docs!
>=20
> >It would be nice if klogd's oops detection just passed everything to ksy=
moops
> >untouched, and stored everything somewhere using -m
>=20
> It would be better if klogd got out of the way completely.  Everything
> is stored, just created /var/log/ksymoops.

Isn't part of the problem with klogd mangling is that is sort of works?
Change the format so that klogd doesn't touch it and that gets _wrong_ Oops
reports out of the way. [you do great work, now make someone else do some
too!]=20

Just my $0.02, from a thankful user.

Thomas
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