Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:31:40 -0500 (EST) | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Subject | Re: Building .config into the kernel |
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
# However, I've seen a number of good arguments from MEC to go all the way # and add /proc/config, which means adding ~5k of data into the kernel, but # also means always being able to recover config data and never having a # confusion about which build is actually running. This, together with my # patchnames patch, makes reporting kernel build information very easy to # automate.
This has all been done before and ignored by Linus. I myself produced a patch that did the trick.... here's an OLD version for 2.1.104 ....
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