Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?

From: Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 05:36:56 EST


Hi Alan,

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>> So, you should ponder whether it is worthwhile to pay this cost of
>> zero, and ponder whether it is worthwhile to pay this cost of 5 kB.
>
> If you are going to cat it onto the end of the kernel image just
> mark it __initdata and shove a known symbol name on it. It'll get
> dumped out of memory and you can find it trivially by using tools on
> the binary

What about putting such info into a (swappable) tmpfs file with
shmem_file_setup?

Greetings
                Christoph

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