Re: config file part of kernel!

From: Rene Herman
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 16:14:06 EST


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.
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