Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: How to check the kernel compile options ? | | Date | 4 Feb 2002 10:22:36 -0800 |
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Followup to: <4.3.2.7.2.20020204124812.00aec590@mail.osagesoftware.com> By author: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I remember discussion of that patch some time ago and the main complaint > about it was that it increases the size of the kernel, i.e. vmlinuz. Why > not put the need info in a module? Doing that would enable the following > command: > > zgrep CONFIG_PROC /lib/modules/`uname -r`/config.gz > > (or something similar). >
Uhm, no. The problem with it is that you're using kernel memory because you're not willing to manage userspace competently, so modules (in fact, *using modules at all*) would be right out.
I have had in my /sbin/installkernel a clause to save .config as config-<foo> when I install vmlinuz-<foo>; I believe anyone not doing that[1] is, quite frankly, a moron.
-hpa
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