Re: [IDEA] Developers: your opinion badly needed ! (Was: [PATCH] /proc/config.gz)

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:40:15 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Marty Leisner wrote:

> Having a /proc/config is a good idea.
>
> Having to match static files with a running kernel is a bad
> idea...no matter how careful you are, you may make mistakes (assuming
> you can find the file).
>
> The solution for /boot/*-${VERSION} is not sufficient when
> multiple kernels exists for the same version...

Why not? You can't come up with descriptive uniqe names?

/kernels/System.map-2.0.33-1-stackln
/kernels/System.map-2.0.33-stackF
/kernels/System.map-2.0.33-stackln
/kernels/config-2.0.33-1-stackln
/kernels/config-2.0.33-stackF
/kernels/config-2.0.33-stackln
/kernels/vmlinuz-2.0.33-1-stackln
/kernels/vmlinuz-2.0.33-stackF
/kernels/vmlinuz-2.0.33-stackln

The only problem I'll have is remembering exactly how these differ a year
from now...but /proc/config isn't going to help with that. Wasn't there a
/proc/patches patch that lists all the patches used if they register with
it? That might be far more useful.

> When you need this information, you want ACCURATE infomation, not a guess
> (multiple files are a guess).

But this really isn't a kernel issue...it's an administration issue. If
/proc/config goes in, at least make it optional.

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