From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: David Lang <dlang@diginsite.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/config idea
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:13:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010403161322.A8174@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AC91800.22D66B24@mandrakesoft.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104021734400.30128-100000@dlang.diginsite.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104021734400.30128-100000@dlang.diginsite.com>; from dlang@diginsite.com on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:39:19 +0200
On 04.03 David Lang wrote:
>
> if the distro/sysadmin _always_ installs the kernel the 'right way' then
> the difference isn't nessasarily that large, but if you want reliability
> on any system it may be worth loosing a page or so of memory (hasn't
> someone said that the data can be compressed to <1K?) make it so that you
> need a common external tool to use the data and deliver it from the kernel
> in compressed form and you don't even need to put the decompression
> routine in the kernel (cat /proc/sys/kernel/config |gunzip >config)
>
Just my 2 cents...
If this has not been done for System.map, that is a much more important
info for debug and oops, and the de facto standard is to put it aside
kernel with some standadr naming, lets use the same method for config.
--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...
Linux werewolf 2.4.3 #2 SMP Fri Mar 30 15:42:05 CEST 2001 i686
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-03 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-02 13:25 /proc/config idea Ian Soboroff
2001-04-02 14:58 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-04-02 15:19 ` Brian Gerst
2001-04-02 15:28 ` Bart Trojanowski
2001-04-03 0:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-03 0:37 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-04-03 0:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-03 2:52 ` David Lang
2001-04-03 11:18 ` Olaf Titz
2001-04-03 12:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 12:43 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-04-03 14:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 0:39 ` David Lang
2001-04-03 5:56 ` Michal Jaegermann
2001-04-03 14:13 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-04-03 18:46 ` Ben Ford
2001-04-03 19:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-03 19:12 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-04-03 19:30 ` Mike Castle
2001-04-04 11:56 ` GOMBAS Gabor
2001-04-03 20:57 ` Ben Ford
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