Debug symbols in kernel modules

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 20:46:13 EDT 2012


On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Aft nix <aftnix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When i write a makefile to build a kernel module how should i make
> sure that it contains debugging symbols?

IIRC, it's in kernel hacking section during make config/menuconfig/xconfig.

Find "kernel debug" or something like that. Then check the resulting
config. You should find that CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y

Or...if it's a stock kernel from your distro repository, just install
the kernel debug symbol package.

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