Re: /proc/config idea
J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:13:22 +0200
On 04.03 David Lang wrote:
>
> if the distro/sysadmin _always_ installs the kernel the 'right way' then
> the difference isn't nessasarily that large, but if you want reliability
> on any system it may be worth loosing a page or so of memory (hasn't
> someone said that the data can be compressed to <1K?) make it so that you
> need a common external tool to use the data and deliver it from the kernel
> in compressed form and you don't even need to put the decompression
> routine in the kernel (cat /proc/sys/kernel/config |gunzip >config)
>
Just my 2 cents...
If this has not been done for System.map, that is a much more important
info for debug and oops, and the de facto standard is to put it aside
kernel with some standadr naming, lets use the same method for config.
--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...
Linux werewolf 2.4.3 #2 SMP Fri Mar 30 15:42:05 CEST 2001 i686
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