Re: [PATCH] Re: Building .config into the kernel

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:26:15 -0300

Chris Chiappa <griffon@snurgle.org> said:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 09:30:56PM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> > It discards semantic information from the .config file, and once that
> > information is lost, it can't be regenerated.

> I'm not sure about this. It's trivial to find the version of a running
> kernel and from that you can deduce anything that *isn't* set in .config,
> and the space savings are substantial.

Many unofficial patches add new configuration options. OTOH, you probably
shouldn't cater to them...

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