From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265147AbUFVSeh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:34:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265148AbUFVSeQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:34:16 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:9866 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265147AbUFVSbQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:31:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:31:15 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] consolidate in kernel configuration Message-ID: <20040622183115.GA7345@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org References: <200406221557.i5MFv3YN020056@voidhawk.shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406221557.i5MFv3YN020056@voidhawk.shadowen.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:57:03PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > It appears that when we enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG and > CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC that we actually include two different copies of > the .config file. One plain text and one compressed. The plain > text one used when extracting from the binary is also not recovered > cleanly. The patch below removes this duplication using the same > compressed version for both purposes. Hopefully this will also > make it more reasonable to default this option to on. Should we really compress it inside the kernel image? If you care for space you compress the kernel image anyway.