On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Giannis Kozyrakis <trv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just for informing anyone interested, and for completeness sake, I must > say that I finally found out what was causing this weird behavior in Ubuntu. > > > Ubuntu is (as far as I tested) the only major distribution that ships > its kernels with the option KALLSYMS_ALL enabled in the kernel's config > file. > > This is what is causing the sys_call_table symbol (and many more too), > to appear in the /proc/kallsyms file. > > I've contacted the Ubuntu folks asking for a reasoning for this. Thanks for letting us know. I guess they want to locate certain symbols but they don't want to alter any kernel source code (e.g feed it into EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() ) regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
