Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: How to check the kernel compile options ? | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:58:23 +0100 |
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On February 13, 2002 03:19 pm, Horst von Brand wrote: > Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> said: > > On February 12, 2002 05:38 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > [...] > > > > No trick other than to read what I said in either of the previous posts... > > > the question was not how to avoid having the useful feature, but how to > > > put it somewhere to avoid increasing the kernel size. I suggested in the > > > modules directory, either as a text file or as a module. > > > We are in violent agreement, I'm not sure where the misunderstanding came > > from. Yes, the leading idea is to put it in a module. In fact a patch > > exists, though it may have issues, it's been a while since I looked at > > it. > > A module can get displaced as easily as a plain text file, and the wrong > "configutarion module" version won't do any good in any case.
Not necessarily, check out the work on bootfs, I think this can be adapted to suit the purpose. If the config is in a module then we'd normally want that module to be one of the modules that is included in the boot image.
> Just teach /sbin/installkernel (or arch/i386/install.sh) to stash it away > somewhere.
If that were satisfactory then there would be nobody posting to this thread.
> You'll need to fix arch/i386/Makefile to pass the name of > .config to the script (note that it now takes 3 or 4 arguments, to get > backwards compatibility when taking 3, 4 or 5 will be tricky, unless you > play games with the name of the files passed into it to figure out where > .config lives). Or call a new script if it is there and only give that one > .config plus the standard stuff.
There is no good way to know where you have put those things. We're looking for a tight coupling between the kernel image and metadata that describes what's in it - like a label on an electronic component: stuck right on it, not filed away in a filing cabinet.
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