Re: config procfs patch

Mike Shaver (shaver@neon.ingenia.ca)
Sun, 25 May 1997 15:54:24 -0400 (EDT)

Thus spake Alan Cox:
> Last time someone suggested the
> far more sensible idea of linking the config file into the final zImage as
> an extra ELF segment, thus taking no RAM, but nobody did it.
>
> So save the discussion and just do the ELF thing

Perhaps we should also have a /proc/sys/kernel/boot-image-path so that
people can check at runtime what kernel they were booted from.

Might only be possible when booted from lilo (and loadlin?), but
that's probably most people.

Mike

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