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Book review: Linux Kernel Development, third edition

Posted Dec 15, 2010 21:01 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
Parent article: Book review: Linux Kernel Development, third edition

> The unlamented ksymoops tool, we are told, "probably came with your distribution."

This reads as though ksymoops is no longer needed ... yet I know of nothing better for translating the "Code: XX XX XX XX <YY> XX" line that comes out with an Oops message.

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Posted Dec 16, 2010 19:24 UTC (Thu) by sbohrer (subscriber, #61058) [Link]

I use scripts/decodecode

Book review: Linux Kernel Development, third edition

Posted Dec 16, 2010 22:22 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

I didn't know about that. Looks neat (uses 'as' to great a .o, and 'objdump' to disassemble that).

I could even hack that to process a command-line-arg which is sometimes easier to provide than stdin.

Thanks!