Re: [EXAMPLE-PATCH] /proc/config

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Fri, 29 May 1998 17:41:09 +0200


Hi,

> make proconfig
> * creates kernel/config.c with all the set variables from .config. Stuff
> like "# CONFIG_xyz is not set" is not copied. Currently the full
> phrase "CONFIG_xyz" is saved, even though know I could strip it off.
> At the end of make {config,oldconfig,xconfig,menuconfig} this is
> called to regenerate kernel/config.c.
>
> make curconfig
> * if it exists, it will use /proc/config as defaults for this kernel.
> This required patching scripts/Configure to support a new option
> "-di" will standards for "Default (ignore NEW)". Otherwise at every
> point where you don't have the option mention in /proc/config, it
> would stop and ask you about it.
>
> And that's basically it. Hopefully this will give a real programmer a
> decent starting point for something that we could include in 2.2.

I consider /proc/config kernel bloat of minimal usefullness.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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