Re: on debugging loadable modules...

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:42:19 +0000 (GMT)

On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> Easy to use (no additional steps except for coding in modutils),
> easy for ksymoops to exploit (just needs to know where to find
> the modules; probably /lib/modules/<ver>/ unless it is given a
> command-line argument to the contrary). There are really very
> few points of failure here.
>
> Any opinions? Did I leave out anything important?
>
You must be able to retreave what happened before the last crash, or
there is no point, ie modules x, y, and z would have there symbol files lost.

> michaelkjohnson
>
Bryn

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