Re: Building .config into the kernel

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:27:49 -0500

In message <199901142239.QAA10502@wind.enjellic.com>, G.W. Wettstein writes:
+-----
| On Jan 14, 7:09pm, Alan Cox wrote:
| } Subject: Re: Building .config into the kernel
|
| > > Right: that's quite a few positive replies regarding something like
| > > /proc/config.gz.
| > >
| > > Anyone prepared to argue against it?
|
| > Yes. Because the
| >
| > cat .config.in >> zImage
| >
| > suggestion is even better. It takes no kernel memory and you can yank it of
| f
| > the image trivially
|
| This should be a non-issue in my opinion. My team runs a bunch of
| production Linux servers at my university job. Here is rpm output
| from one of our servers:
+--->8

The situation at *this* university is a little different. The machine I was
working on this afternoon is a case in point: the grad student who normally
uses the machine put 2.1.131 on it, and I have very little idea of how it
was configured. And there's no way the LCS grad students are going to RPM
their kernels....

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brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
     We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.






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