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Message-Id: <20061001093954.8d2aa064.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:39:54 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> To: akpm@...l.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Cc: 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 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. I'm disappointed, but I agree that you have a right to do so. (IOW, I wouldn't be disappointed if some other patches were merged even though someone disapproved of them :) And the memory savings are not a big deal. You even mentioned that you had it confused with /proc/kallsyms. --- ~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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