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    Subjectmake cloneconfig ?
    any reason why "make cloneconfig" never made it into mainline?

    many people are quite used to it and every time i build vanilla kernel i step into that trap "oh - that`s a suse`ism"

    make cloneconfig exists since /proc/config.gz - but while that one went into mainline, cloneconfig never did.

    anyone know the reason for that ?

    i wished, distros kernels were more similar to vanilla kernels - so what about making them more similar ?




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    List: linux-kernel
    Subject: [patch] config.gz and make cloneconfig
    From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron () waste ! org>
    Date: 1999-07-20 20:03:45
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    Please consider the following patch against 2.3.10 which adds a config
    option to store the kernel configuration in the kernel image and make it
    available as a file in /proc. It also adds 'make cloneconfig' which will
    duplicate your running kernel configuration.

    Also worth noting is scripts/bin2c, which is meant to replace the poorly
    named and poorly located bin2hex programs that are in various places.

    diff -urN linux/Documentation/Configure.help linux-cfg/Documentation/Configure.help
    --- linux/Documentation/Configure.help Mon Jul 5 22:37:25 1999
    +++ linux-cfg/Documentation/Configure.help Tue Jul 20 13:35:21 1999
    @@ -7464,6 +7464,14 @@
    This option will enlarge your kernel by about 18 KB. Several
    programs depend on this, so everyone should say Y here.

    +/proc/config.gz support
    +CONFIG_PROC_CONFIG
    + Say Y here if you want a copy of your current kernel configuration
    + saved in the kernel that you build. This is extremely useful if you
    + ever build more than one kernel. The cost is around 1K-4K of running
    + memory. Only say no if you really can't spare this. You can sneeze
    + and lose more on memory than this.
    +
    NFS filesystem support
    CONFIG_NFS_FS
    If you are connected to some other (usually local) Unix computer
    diff -urN linux/Documentation/patches/cfg linux-cfg/Documentation/patches/cfg
    --- linux/Documentation/patches/cfg Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
    +++ linux-cfg/Documentation/patches/cfg Tue Jul 20 14:26:27 1999
    @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
    +This patch adds /proc/config.gz and make cloneconfig
    +
    +Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
    +
    +Jan 15 1999 - original 2.0.0-pre version
    +Jul 20 1999 - updated to 2.3.10
    +
    +Derived from a patch by Nicholas Leon <nicholas@binary9.net> with
    +suggestions from Michael Chastain <mec@shout.net> and Peter T. Breuer
    +<ptb@it.uc3m.es>
    diff -urN linux/Makefile linux-cfg/Makefile
    --- linux/Makefile Thu Jul 1 12:54:31 1999
    +++ linux-cfg/Makefile Tue Jul 20 14:22:52 1999
    @@ -243,6 +243,15 @@
    config: symlinks
    $(CONFIG_SHELL) scripts/Configure arch/$(ARCH)/config.in

    +cloneconfig: symlinks
    + @if [ -f "/proc/config.gz" ]; then \
    + mv -f .config .config.bak; \
    + gzip -d < /proc/config.gz > .config; \
    + $(CONFIG_SHELL) scripts/Configure -d arch/$(ARCH)/config.in; \
    + else \
    + echo "Sorry, your current kernel was built without cloning support."; \
    + fi
    +

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