On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:27:25 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
> From: Ross Biro <[email protected]>
>
> 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.
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~Randy
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:39:54 -0700
Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:27:25 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
>
> > From: Ross Biro <[email protected]>
> >
> > 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.
So now it's in the "needs more arguing before we revert it" category.
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:36:00 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:39:54 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:27:25 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > From: Ross Biro <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > 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.
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~Randy
On 10/1/06, Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
I think we should pull it and then argue about putting it back in.
Ross