Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:23:27 +0200 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: + allow-proc-configgz-to-be-built-as-a-module.patch added to -mm tree |
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:41:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'd want to be hearing from distro people on that - I'd expect that the > .config which is used to build configs.ko would not differ from that which > is used to build vmlinux.
What's the point though? If you can find configs.ko, you can have install_modules copy config.gz there, no? And you also have it in /boot/config-`uname -r`. /proc/config.gz has a trust value only because it is linked into the image. Having it as a module gives the exact save level of trustyness that the perfectly well working solution of copying in /boot had before.
In other terms, if you allow configs.ko, you can't trust the contents of /proc/config.gz anymore and /proc/config.gz lost all its interest where it comes to debugging.
OG.
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