Re: [patch] 2.4.21-pre5 kksymoops for i386/ia64

[Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:41:46 +1100, 
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:33:07 +0100, 
>Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>>Rather than using this patch I would rather backport the 2.5 code
>>which works fine even for cross and compresses the symbol tables too.
>
>The 2.5 kallsyms does not have section data which is required for kdb
>(and probably kgdb).  That data used to be there until Rusty deleted
>it, the lack of section data is one of the reasons that I no longer do
>kdb for 2.5.  If you want to kill kdb for 2.4 kernels as well, go ahead
>and backport the incomplete 2.5 code.

ps. The 2.5 kallsyms code is incompatible with modutils 2.4,
backporting the incomplete 2.5 kallsyms would only get debugging
symbols for the kernel, not for modules.  Changing modutils 2.4 is not
an option, I will not introduce an incompatible change in the middle of
a stable kernel series unless there is no choice (e.g. to fix a
critical bug).