Rather than storing 8K worth of config information as text, how about
storing some form of compacted data which can be used to deduce the
configuration by a user-space program (in the presence of the
sources)? The easiest way to do this would be to store simply the
keypresses one would have to enter into "make config" to generate the
equivalent configuration, although something that would be more
intelligent about patches and differing kernel versions would be
better, of course.
-hpa
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