linux-kernel - Re: + allow-proc-configgz-to-be-built-as-a-module.patch added to -mm tree

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Date:	Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:08:08 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	akpm@...l.org, rdunlap@...otime.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rossb@...gle.com, sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: + allow-proc-configgz-to-be-built-as-a-module.patch added to -mm tree

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:17:02 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > The patch titled
> > > > 
> > > >      allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module
> > > > 
> > > > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
...
> Can any of the distro people chime in here?  Andrew merged this
> patch to mainline today.  Several people had disagreed with merging
> it, but now Andrew says we need more discussion (if or) in order to
> revert it.

Merged into -mm or not, modular /proc/config.gz remains an
utterly redundant kernel feature that user-space doesn't need.

User-space knows how to locate modules for the running kernel,
including the module implementing /proc/config.gz; therefore
it can replace the module file with the corresponding config
data, without loss of functionality.

All that's needed is to standardise the location of the
config file; /lib/modules/`uname -r`/config.gz seems a
reasonable choice.
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