# However, I've seen a number of good arguments from MEC to go all the way
# and add /proc/config, which means adding ~5k of data into the kernel, but
# also means always being able to recover config data and never having a
# confusion about which build is actually running. This, together with my
# patchnames patch, makes reporting kernel build information very easy to
# automate.
This has all been done before and ignored by Linus. I myself produced a
patch that did the trick.... here's an OLD version for 2.1.104 ....