Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:30:56 -0600 | From | Michael Elizabeth Chastain <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Building .config into the kernel |
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I like CONFIG_PROC_CONFIG a lot, but I'm opposed to this particular implementation of it.
It discards semantic information from the .config file, and once that information is lost, it can't be regenerated.
I want /proc/config.gz to contain a *lossless* copy of the .config file. That makes it the most reliable and useful. And I prefer that it come in a standard format (straight gzip compression, no s/CONFIG_// games), so that people can access it any way they want without needing to run it through yet another custom text mangler.
I am building a configuration system with well-defined semantics, a written manual for Config Language, a real parser with static error checking, and so on. That's my vision. I don't want to see a system that works fine if you use it the way the author says, has its own capricious format, and loses some of your configuration information if you do something a bit different. If I wanted that kind of configuration system, I'd boot up something with a four-colored flag.
Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mailto:mec@shout.net> "love without fear"
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