Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:39:55 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit |
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Lang wrote: > > if we want to get the .config as part of the report then we need to make > > it part of the kernel in some standard way (the old /proc/config flamewar) > > it's difficult enough sometimes for the sysadmin of a box to know what > > kernel is running on it, let alone a bug reporting script. > > Let's hope it's not a flamewar, but here goes :) > > We -need- .config, but /proc/config seems like pure bloat.
As a former proponent of /proc/config (I wrote one of the much-debated patches), I tend to agree. Debian's make-kpkg does the right thing, namely treating .config the same way it treats System-map, putting it in the package and eventually installing it in /boot/config-x.y.z. If Redhat's kernel-install script did the same it would rapidly become a non-issue.
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