um ... where is ksymoops?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 05:24 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i suspect i'm tripping over it without seeing it, but is there an
> > actual fedora package containing ksymoops?
>
> The ksymoops utility is kinda ancient history these days. Much of its
> functionality has moved into the kernel; at least for common build
> configurations (see CONFIG_KALLSYMS, Documentation/Changes and
> Documentation/oops-tracing.txt in the kernel sources).
>
> For 2.6 kernels it's almost never necessary to run the oops output
> through ksymoops before posting it.
>
> Historical ksymoops sources are available here if you need them:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/

  i'd sort of suspected that, i just didn't know it was *that* passe.
thanks.

rday
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