Messages in this thread | | | From | "Paul Damplon" <> | Subject | Re: Building .config into the kernel | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:31:02 PST |
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>Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:22:05 -0600 (CST) >From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> >To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> >cc: Neil Conway <nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk>, mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu, mec@shout.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu >Subject: Re: Building .config into the kernel > >On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > >> Yes. Because the >> >> cat .config.in >> zImage >> >> suggestion is even better. It takes no kernel memory and you can yank it off >> the image trivially > >True, but it's also much less useful. It assumes you can identify which >kernel image you booted, etc. For instance, you're debugging a machine >with an uptime of 120 days, and the admin you're helping doesn't know >which kernel he booted.. It's also not available at boot time, which is >a useful debugging feature.
the booted kernel name is available as the environ of init under /proc/1
> >Now if only I could have stirred up this much discussion with my >patchnames patch..
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