RE: Decoding of addreses in kernel logs

[Borsenkow Andrej]

> On Thu, 30 May 2002 10:57:50 +0400,
> Borsenkow Andrej <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >Are there any cases except oopses when decoding of addresses in
kernel logs
> >is needed? The reason is I'd like to switch from klogd+syslogd to
other
> >logging system and I was adviced to forget klogd and just get logs
from
> >/proc/kmsg and decode them with ksymoops. While I have no problem
with it
> >actually, my concern is - is it possible that some information in
kernel
> >logs can be decoded by klogd but not by ksymoops?
> 
> It is the other way around.  ksymoops decodes far more than klogd
does.
> ksymoops has been continually extended as new diagnostics are added to
> the kernel, klogd has not.

Thank you. My only concern is that klogd decodes addresses in real time
(if it is able to do it at all) while ksymoops is usually postmortem. It
means that ksymoops may not have access to real module addresses? 

-andrej