Re: [patch] v1.01 of /proc/.config (ready to eat)

CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:26:32 +1100 (EST)

Alan Cox wrote the following:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 02:12:42PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > (cat $tmp1; sed -e "s/^CONFIG_//" <.config; cat $tmp2) > ./kernel/dconfig_buf.c
> >
> > Removing "^" from the sed pattern will save some more bytes:
> >
> > (cat $tmp1; sed -e "s/CONFIG_//" <.config; cat $tmp2) > ./kernel/dconfig_buf.c
> >
> > > (free compression 8))
> > :-)
>
> Umm
>
> (cat $tmp1; sed -e "s/^CONFIG_//" <.config | grep -v "^#"; cat $tmp2)
>
> ??

I think for this patch to be somewhat useful it's best that it's usefulness
is as easily attained as possible. Since the best use I can think for this
is to 'rescue' a lost .config file the easiest way to get this would be to

cp /proc/.config /usr/src/linux

and the type of editing above would just complicate matters at best.

(if there's better uses for this I'd wanna hear them, but that's the main
thing I'd use it for... well... the only thing really :)

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