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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Extraversion in System.map?
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:41:38 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8roki$v7t$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204081502180.548-100000@holly.crl.go.jp> <1018246521.1534.145.camel@phantasy>

In article <1018246521.1534.145.camel@phantasy>,
Robert Love  <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
>Do what everyone else does and name your System.map appropriately, i.e.
>System.map-2.5.8-pre2 and then on boot symlink System.map to
>System.map-`uname -r`.  Most (all?) distributions do this for you
>already.

Not even that is needed. Most if not all utilities that need a
system.map file check for System.map-`uname -r` _first_ and only
if that is not found fall back to plain System.map. So the symlink
is superfluous.

Mike.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-08  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20020405060509.GB30807@holomorphy.com>
2002-04-08  6:07 ` Extraversion in System.map? Tom Holroyd
2002-04-08  6:15   ` Robert Love
2002-04-08  9:41     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2002-04-08  6:18   ` Keith Owens
2002-04-08  6:29     ` Tom Holroyd
2002-04-08  6:36       ` Keith Owens

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