Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:12:12 +1100 | From | Kevin Lentin <> | Subject | Re: How about a /proc/patches ? |
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On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 02:30:20PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > Second: I took a look at it, and decided the /proc/patches entry wasn't > necessary, as the same info was available from dmesg anyway. However, the > /proc/config file could be very useful, and it doesn't look like it adds > much code to the kernel. So my recommendation would be to keep
Well, then get rid of /proc/scsi/scsi as well since it's in dmesg.
> /proc/patches and /proc/config and ditch print_patches() at startup. > [can you format /proc/config as closely as possible to .config, so that > modules/programs that are used to scanning /usr/src/linux/.config for info > can redirect their search easily to /proc/config instead? Alternatively > it could look like include/linux/autoconf.h instead.]
I think .config would be a could match to use.
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