Re: on debugging loadable modules...

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:40:01 +0000 (GMT)


> at this level to /var/adm/module.log or whatever. Basically
> the printk looks like this:
>
> smc_ultra_module: Loading image at base vaddr 0xdeadbeef

Put it in /proc instead, save cluttering up logs

> * Ksymoops is modified to understand this scheme and then trace
> properly through kernel modules using either the proc filesystem
> entries (if the machine didn't die from the oops) or extracting
> the lines from /var/adm/module.log when the machine comes
> back up _and_ the module.map file.
>
> What do people think? This idea sucks doesn't it?

Not really

Alan