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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>
Cc: Ian Soboroff <ian@cs.umbc.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/config idea
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:49:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AC91E05.F11BFF43@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877l13whzw.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu> <3AC89389.46317572@coplanar.net> <3AC91800.22D66B24@mandrakesoft.com> <3AC91B5B.1612945D@coplanar.net>

Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> If you have a lot of kernels around, which Config-2.4.3 applies to kernel 2.4.3
> given 5 to choose from...the idea (same for System.map) is that it being in the
> same
> file they can't be confused.  Kinda like forks under Mac (but let's not go there
> now)

The same applies to kernel modules too.  Are you going to put all those
in the kernel image too?

If it's a file, read it from a filesystem after the kernel has booted. 
There is no need to special case this stuff.

-- 
Jeff Garzik       | May you have warm words on a cold evening,
Building 1024     | a full moon on a dark night,
MandrakeSoft      | and a smooth road all the way to your door.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-03  0:50 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 [this message]
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
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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