Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: A couple "normal user" questions.. | Date | 31 Jan 1997 17:38:26 GMT |
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Followup to: <m0vq4jN-0005FcC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk> By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I don't want 8K of my kernel wasted because I can't remember to save config > files. For vendors they can ship configs with the kernel. One thing slackware > did get right is providing config and System.map files for the default > kernels >
Rather than storing 8K worth of config information as text, how about storing some form of compacted data which can be used to deduce the configuration by a user-space program (in the presence of the sources)? The easiest way to do this would be to store simply the keypresses one would have to enter into "make config" to generate the equivalent configuration, although something that would be more intelligent about patches and differing kernel versions would be better, of course.
-hpa
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