Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:16:30 +0000 | From | Alain Williams <> | Subject | Re: Building .config into the kernel |
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On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:55:54PM +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > It's ridiculous not to waste 4k of space on a list of config options in > memory on 256MB servers holding up 30 client machines. It saves time and > avoids confusion. It helps bug reporting too .. telephone conversation: > "is your kernel configured for firewalling? .. I don't know! .. please > zcat /proc/config.gz | mail me@here please .."
I agree. However, if someone *really* hasn't got the 4K to spare why not make this a configuration option, ie allow /proc/config.gz to be compiled out of the kernel. Like that everyone will be kept happy. I suspect that most distributions will compile it in as it makes support easier.
-- Alain Williams
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