Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:55:20 +0200 | From | Petr Baudis <> | Subject | Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit |
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> Why not have the /proc/config option but instead of being plain text, > make it binary with a userspace app that can interpret it? [snip] > You'd have > 2.4.3-pre3:1101111100000100000000 . . . . . > I think this is against UNIX/Linux philosophy... Why we wouldn't just providing all the interface through sysctl stuff and abadon all the /proc? Cause we want to provide human-readable interface, which could be parsed really simply...
We should just mean 'cat' as 'userspace app' primarily i think. At least currently we does. Also you have a big problem with forward compatibility etc.
But anyway i would vote for the .config file somewhere in /boot directory. If one have a kernel from some linux distribution, it is propably actually obsolete, so it is proximity the bug is actually fixed anyway. And if he will get the newest kernel, it should do something like cp .config /boot/config.
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