> Actually, that's not as silly as it sounds. Why CAN'T /proc/config.gz
> give a gzipped answer? Presumably we're only reading it if we are
> actually running a system, in which case gzip is available to
> decompress it.
Because /proc/config is largely an emergancy recovery tool. (OTOH, you need
gzip to compile the kernel anyway (to untar it)).
> The next simplest thing to do is code the config as a 2bit-map
> (presumably of yes,no,module,don't know) according to some standard.
> That requires decisions, and the registration of identification numbers
> for config options, so it won't happen.
No, the reason that it won't happen is that you can't encode strings or
numbers that way, only tristates and bools.
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