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Old 02-12-2011, 07:23 AM   #1
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/boot/symvers-2.6.18-164.el5.gz


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Can any body tell me what /boot/symvers2.6.18-164.el5.gz file contains?
 
Old 02-12-2011, 12:57 PM   #2
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It's (guessing) a kernel Module.symvers from a 2.6.18-164.el5 (RedHat type) Enterprise Linux 5 kernel. Kernel related module stuff. Google it.
 
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During a kernel build, a file named Module.symvers will be
generated. Module.symvers contains all exported symbols from
the kernel and compiled modules. For each symbol, the
corresponding CRC value is also stored.

The syntax of the Module.symvers file is:
<CRC> <Symbol> <module>

you can run :
#gunzip symvers-$(uname -r).gz

and then vim symvers-version... to see the content . this is some part of my symvers file :

0x1f2d7c8a cfg80211_wext_siwscan net/wireless/cfg80211 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
0x9cf82590 cfg80211_wext_giwscan net/wireless/cfg80211 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
0xb3c975e0 ieee80211_queue_stopped net/mac80211/mac80211 EXPORT_SYMBOL
0x1278ce2c iscsi2_requeue_task drivers/scsi/libiscsi2 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
0x07d35294 i2o_driver_register drivers/message/i2o/i2o_core EXPORT_SYMBOL

Last edited by ravik_rhce; 05-08-2019 at 04:25 AM. Reason: typo
 
  


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