On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Padraig Brady wrote:
> I'd go for tacking it on at the end of the bzImage. Advantages would be
> that it can be read even when the kernel isn't loaded, and also there
> is no danger of loading a module in another kernel.
There are several problems with that:
1 - built into the kernel it is compressed and needs a tool to read
2 - the reason kernels are compressed is to make them fit in small boot
media, so adding something to the image is not to be done lightly.
3 - modules are NOT compressed, and can be read with the strings command.
4 - other files in the modules directory are pure text and if the config
was just text it could be read with `cat.'
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