Re: [ANNOUNCE] [patch] kksymoops, in-kernel symbolic oopser, 2.5.38-B0

Kai Germaschewski (kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:41:03 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> one unrelated build thing that doesnt work is arch/i386/defconfig. If i
> add a CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y line to its debug section, and remove the
> CONFIG_KALLSYMS line from the .config, and then do a 'make oldconfig', i
> get this:
>
> Kernel debugging (CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL) [Y/n/?]
> Debug memory allocations (CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB) [N/y/?]
> Memory mapped I/O debugging (CONFIG_DEBUG_IOVIRT) [N/y/?]
> Magic SysRq key (CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ) [Y/n/?]
> Spinlock debugging (CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK) [N/y/?]
> Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops (CONFIG_KALLSYMS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
>
> i'd expect the 'Y' to be picked up from the defconfig - no?

No. I don't think the behavior you describe ever existed. If you do
"rm .config; make oldconfig" then it'll get picked up.

--Kai

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