On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> I am including a revised patch that allows a user to embed kernel
> configuration in the kernel and retrieve it later either from a running
> kernel or from the kernel image file. This is an enhancement to Randy's
> patch that was discussed on LKML before and is part of -ac series
> kernels.
>
> This patch provides three choices for embedding kernel configuration:
>
> 1. Include configuration in running kernel image. This adds to the
> footprint of the running kernel but allows configuration to be retrieved
> using "cat /proc/ikconfig/config".
Have you considered compressing the config info in order to reduce
the space wastage in the loaded kernel image? Could easily be 10's of KB
(not that that's a lot these days). The info would then be retrieved via
"gunzip -c", et al. instead of a simple "cat".
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