System.map question

[Steve Holmes]

Plus I've seen System.map being referenced when doing a 'make
modules_install' for the kernel; it used it to create the list of
dependencies for modprobing.

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 06:34:46AM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> It provides a file with each kernel function listed and an absolute
> offset to that function from the beginning of the code.  That allows
> one when confronted with a kernel oops to look up the place in the
> kernel where it went out to lunch.
> 
>   Kirk
> 

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