Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: [EXAMPLE-PATCH] /proc/config | Date | Sat, 30 May 1998 18:54:26 +0200 (MET DST) |
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"A month of sundays ago Martin Mares wrote:" > > grep -v '^#' .config | gzip | wc -c > > gives 483. Add a couples of bytes for the code that implements > > /proc/config. And of course you could make it an option. > > I don't expect /proc/config to give _gzipped_ answer, so you either have > to include ungzip code in the kernel or you cannot have the data compressed > in memory. _Runtime_ size of the kernel is more important than the on-disk > size.
Actually, that's not as silly as it sounds. Why CAN'T /proc/config.gz give a gzipped answer? Presumably we're only reading it if we are actually running a system, in which case gzip is available to decompress it.
So I think, yes, the simplest thing to do is put the whole gzipped .config file into some kernel variable, then let /proc display it as a .gz.
The next simplest thing to do is code the config as a 2bit-map (presumably of yes,no,module,don't know) according to some standard. That requires decisions, and the registration of identification numbers for config options, so it won't happen.
Peter ptb@it.uc3m.es
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