It is a text file that shows all the symbol values.
> 2. How does the kernel use it?
It doesn't, but other things do: klogd, ksymoops, etc.
> 3. I removed it from one of my systems, and, at least for basic stuff,
> it seems to make no difference.
Until you get an OOPS, then there is no way to know what function
caused it, so it is impossible to fix.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html