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Re: Diffrencess between ksyms & System.map files



On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 01:55:15PM +0530, Syed Khaleelulla wrote:
> Hello All,
>   I wanted to know the difference between the ksyms & System.map files.
> 
> I know that the ksyms file is the file containing kernel symbol tables.
> And if we add a new module into the kernel the ksyms file is altered
> by including the functions of the new module that can be used along with
> the address.

/proc/ksyms is dynamically generated. System.map is generated at build time
by running "nm" on the kernel image.

	-Arun