Re: Oops in 2.2.13 (in __brelse) and ksymoops is obsolete?

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:34:13 +1100, 
Martijn van Oosterhout <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> 
>> ksymoops was meant to be separate from the kernel.  It is separate in
>> 2.3 but Alan Cox did not like the idea of tearing it out of the 2.2
>> kernels so we settled for a message instead.  The code in kernel 2.2
>> scripts/ksymoops is way out of date.
>
>Okay, now we have rife confusion. Maybe this should be mentioned
>somewhere? Saying it is obsolete is one thing. Maybe it should
>say it is completely useless. I fully support ripping it out
>considering at the moment it can only confuse people.

The message says

  WARNING: This version of ksymoops is obsolete.
  WARNING: The current version can be obtained from ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/ksymoops

The 2.2 kernel scripts/ksymoops code works but is out of date, that is,
it is obsolete.  Where is the confusion?

>> ksymoops 2.3.3 works on all kernels from 2.0 onwards.  But if other
>> code like klogd stamps on the report before it gets to ksymoops, there
>> is nothing I can do about it.  That is why there is a patch in the
>> ksymoops directory against klogd, to preserve the data that ksymoops
>> need.
>
>Again, could it say this somewhere? And what exactly in the report
>do klogd stomp on?

It does say this, in /pub/ksymoops/v2.3/README.

patch-sysklogd-1-3-31-ksymoops-1.gz

                                A patch against sysklogd 1-3-31 to preserve
                                information that ksymoops needs to do its job.
                                This patch has been accepted by the sysklogd
                                maintainer and should appear in the next release
                                of sysklogd.

I am not responsible for sysklogd, the best I can do is publish a patch
that I believe is required and hope that people read the README file.