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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:52:41 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, torvalds@...l.org, rossb@...gle.com, akpm@...gle.com, sam@...nborg.org Subject: Re: [patch 024/144] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:36:00 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:39:54 -0700 > Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:27:25 -0700 akpm@...l.org wrote: > > > > > From: Ross Biro <rossb@...gle.com> > > > > > > The driver for /proc/config.gz consumes rather a lot of memory and it is in > > > fact possible to build it as a module. > > > > > > In some ways this is a bit risky, because the .config which is used for > > > compiling kernel/configs.c isn't necessarily the same as the .config which was > > > used to build vmlinux. > > > > > > But OTOH the potential memory savings are decent, and it'd be fairly dumb to > > > build your configs.o with a different .config. > > > > so after getting several disagreements on this, you are going ahead > > with it. > > Actually I had this mentally tagged as "needs more arguing before merging" > but then forgot and went and sent it anyway. Well, we agree on that part at least. > So now it's in the "needs more arguing before we revert it" category. Wrong order IMO. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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