Re: [Patch] Kernel configuration in kernel, kernel 2.4.20

[Peter T. Breuer]

In article <[e-mail]> you wrote:

> On 2002.12.29 Paul Rolland wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Tired of keeping copy of the kernel .config file, I decided to create a kernel
>> patch to have a 
>> /proc/config/config.gz

> Why people does not read the archives before doing anything ?

> http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/proconfig/

Uuumph. Thanks for reminding me. That made me update the page and the
Changelog in a hurry.

It does work for latest 2.4. I ported to 2.4.19 a couple of months ago.
Nowadays it uses string common prefix compression to reduce the
internal size. Probably 4-12K in total (there are a LOT of kernel
compilation params nowadays), but the output from /proc/config
is exactly as it should be.

   Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
   config                 10908   0 (unused)

   betty:/usr/oboe/ptb/lib/www/proconfig% cat /proc/config | wc
       855     855   18421

(855 kernel config options, with 18.4K of output chars)

   betty:/usr/oboe/ptb/lib/www/proconfig% head /proc/config
   CONFIG_X86=y
   CONFIG_ISA=y
   CONFIG_UID16=y
   CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
   CONFIG_MODULES=y
   ...

Now I suppose I need to port it to latest 2.5. Assuming I can compile a
2.5, that is! I haven't tried since 2.5.47, which was before that
modules change.

Peter