Re: Building .config into the kernel

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:22:05 -0600 (CST)


On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> Yes. Because the
>
> cat .config.in >> zImage
>
> suggestion is even better. It takes no kernel memory and you can yank it off
> the image trivially

True, but it's also much less useful. It assumes you can identify which
kernel image you booted, etc. For instance, you're debugging a machine
with an uptime of 120 days, and the admin you're helping doesn't know
which kernel he booted.. It's also not available at boot time, which is
a useful debugging feature.

Now if only I could have stirred up this much discussion with my
patchnames patch..

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