Re: [PATCH] consolidate in kernel configuration

[Sam Ravnborg]

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
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