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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Sanjeev Aditya Naga <sanjeev.kernel@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: config file part of kernel!
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:13:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480E46FC.9030003@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0804222103240.13697@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On 22-04-08 21:03, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Tuesday 2008-04-22 18:53, Sanjeev Aditya Naga wrote:
>> Will it be good, if we make the `config` file (used to
>> build a kernel) part of the built kernel. So that one in
>> need, can extract it from the kernel using some
>> userspace tool!?
> 
> Surprise, what do you think /proc/config.gz is for? :-)

Now that you mention it -- why does the kernel export that thing gzipped in 
fact? It has a zlib copy...

Rene.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-22 16:53 config file part of kernel! Sanjeev Aditya Naga
2008-04-22 16:58 ` Randy.Dunlap
2008-04-22 17:00 ` Dan Noe
2008-04-22 19:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-22 20:13   ` Rene Herman [this message]

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