On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On February 11, 2002 08:05 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Did I miss discussion of an option to put it somewhere other than as part
> > of the kernel? Sorry, I missed that.
>
> It's a trick question? The config option would let you specify that no
> kernel config information at all would be stored with or in the kernel. No
> cost, no memory footprint. And I would get to have the extra warm n fuzzy
> usability I tend to go on at such lengths about. So we're both happy, right?
>
> I'd even remain happy if the option were set *off* by default.
No trick other than to read what I said in either of the previous posts...
the question was not how to avoid having the useful feature, but how to
put it somewhere to avoid increasing the kernel size. I suggested in the
modules directory, either as a text file or as a module.
Disabling the feature is not the same as making it work optimally.
I like making it a module because it's obvious that modules_install is
needed. I see zero added utility from having it part of the kernel or
nothing, it's useful even to people booting from ROM, small /boot
partitions, etc.
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