From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265131AbUFVTAw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:00:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265371AbUFVS5u (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:57:50 -0400 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:35871 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265286AbUFVS44 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:56:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:08:51 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Christoph Hellwig , Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] consolidate in kernel configuration Message-ID: <20040622190851.GA7672@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org References: <200406221557.i5MFv3YN020056@voidhawk.shadowen.org> <20040622183115.GA7345@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040622183115.GA7345@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:31:15PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. In this way it is compressed even when the kernel is uncompressed. Sam