On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
| > > 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?
|
| That is indeed an extremely cunning plan. Paticularly as /proc/config can
| be a symlink to it
| -
I still prefer your suggestion to append it to the kernel image
as __initdata so that it's discarded from memory but can be
read with some tool(s).
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