Re: Building .config into the kernel
Paul Damplon (oskernel@hotmail.com)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:31:02 PST
>Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:22:05 -0600 (CST)
>From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
>To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>cc: Neil Conway <nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk>,
mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu, mec@shout.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>Subject: Re: Building .config into the kernel
>
>On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> Yes. Because the
>>
>> cat .config.in >> zImage
>>
>> suggestion is even better. It takes no kernel memory and you can yank
it off
>> the image trivially
>
>True, but it's also much less useful. It assumes you can identify which
>kernel image you booted, etc. For instance, you're debugging a machine
>with an uptime of 120 days, and the admin you're helping doesn't know
>which kernel he booted.. It's also not available at boot time, which is
>a useful debugging feature.
the booted kernel name is available as the environ of init under
/proc/1
>
>Now if only I could have stirred up this much discussion with my
>patchnames patch..
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