Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:13:22 +0200 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: /proc/config idea |
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On 04.03 David Lang wrote: > > if the distro/sysadmin _always_ installs the kernel the 'right way' then > the difference isn't nessasarily that large, but if you want reliability > on any system it may be worth loosing a page or so of memory (hasn't > someone said that the data can be compressed to <1K?) make it so that you > need a common external tool to use the data and deliver it from the kernel > in compressed form and you don't even need to put the decompression > routine in the kernel (cat /proc/sys/kernel/config |gunzip >config) >
Just my 2 cents...
If this has not been done for System.map, that is a much more important info for debug and oops, and the de facto standard is to put it aside kernel with some standadr naming, lets use the same method for config.
-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...
Linux werewolf 2.4.3 #2 SMP Fri Mar 30 15:42:05 CEST 2001 i686
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