Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [patch] v1.01 of /proc/.config (ready to eat) | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:53:02 +0000 (GMT) |
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> I also disagree with Oliver Xymoron whose patch is apparently more clever > (decompressing-on-the-fly) but, imho, for such a simple thing it is better > to keep things simple.
Not when it costs no kernel space. (ok 3 bytes of space for .gz on the end of the .config) to save 2 pages of memory. Oliver's approach is the best so far
> somewhere. This is (far) more complex but this kind of complexity I like - > i.e. it may be worth it in the long term (as opposed to ad-hoc complexity > of built-in decompressor just for the humble /proc/.config thingy)
If you only want to keep it with the kernel image then
echo "%%%MAGICSTRING%%%" >>zImage cat .config >>zImage
ought to work fine
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