> So? We already have gunzip code in the kernel _four_ _places_ (zImage, PPP,
> ftape, ramdisk). What we really need to do is write generic [de]compression
> service that all those clients can use. (We are currently using four
> different copies of the code, yes?)
There is lib/deflate.c, but if you don't use PPP, ftape nor ramdisk, it is
not linked in. Forcing it to be linked just for sake of the /proc/config.gz
thing seems to be even worse than not compressing the option list at all.
Have a nice fortnight
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