[LEDE-DEV] How to build kernel module with debugging symbols?

[Ben Greear]

I am trying to debug a crash in my ath10k-ct kernel driver.
I can only reproduce this on LEDE, so my normal debug tricks are not working.

How can I get LEDE to build the module with symbols so that LEDE's gdb can open it?

I verified that '-g' is being passed when compiling the module, and it does not appear
to be stripped, but symbols are not found:

file /home/greearb/git/lede-linksys/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15+neon-vfpv4_musl-1.1.15_eabi/linux-ipq806x/ath10k-ct-2016-07-21/ath10k/ath10k_core.ko
/home/greearb/git/lede-linksys/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15+neon-vfpv4_musl-1.1.15_eabi/linux-ipq806x/ath10k-ct-2016-07-21/ath10k/ath10k_core.ko: ELF 32-bit 
LSB relocatable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), BuildID[sha1]=1e15f0ff10a3d64ab36e7bcf1e4a7f8121581c3b, not stripped


./build_dir/toolchain-arm_cortex-a15+neon-vfpv4_gcc-5.4.0_musl-1.1.15_eabi/gdb-7.11.1/gdb/gdb 
/home/greearb/git/lede-linksys/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15+neon-vfpv4_musl-1.1.15_eabi/linux-ipq806x/ath10k-ct-2016-07-21/ath10k/ath10k_core.ko
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Reading symbols from 
/home/greearb/git/lede-linksys/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15+neon-vfpv4_musl-1.1.15_eabi/linux-ipq806x/ath10k-ct-2016-07-21/ath10k/ath10k_core.ko...(no 
debugging symbols found)...done.

??

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
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