Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:49:09 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: /proc/config idea |
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Jeremy Jackson wrote: > If you have a lot of kernels around, which Config-2.4.3 applies to kernel 2.4.3 > given 5 to choose from...the idea (same for System.map) is that it being in the > same > file they can't be confused. Kinda like forks under Mac (but let's not go there > now)
The same applies to kernel modules too. Are you going to put all those in the kernel image too?
If it's a file, read it from a filesystem after the kernel has booted. There is no need to special case this stuff.
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