ksyms, kksymoops, modules, et.al.

So what's going on with ksyms in 2.5.48 (and bk trees since the module loader change, as far as I can tell)? I no longer see /proc/ksyms and kernel oops's don't get decoded automatically either.

I also notice that the 'modules_install' target is populating the /lib/modules/version#/kernel directory with a flat collection of all the modules at that one directory level. There are no subdirectories. Is this intentional? This seems to break depmod and insmod for me, unless I use insmod with a direct path and full filename.

In a (possibly related) test, if I add to .config:

CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y

then I see the following interesting behavior. Note that I do have new modutils installed, so insmod.old does exist in /sbin

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make[1]: `scripts/kconfig/conf' is up to date. ./scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig .config:1309: trying to assign nonexistent symbol KALLSYMS

<snip>

/sbin/kallsyms .tmp_vmlinux1 > .tmp_kallsyms1.o
Kernel requires old insmod, but couldn't run insmod.old: No such file or directory
make: *** [.tmp_kallsyms1.o] Error 2
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Is there some documented change (which I failed to locate) to ksyms I should be using to decode oops's? Oh, and the make removes the entry for 'CONFIG_KALLSYMS'... Help :)

Kevin

It's currently broken due to the new module code... ping Rusty for a fix ;-)