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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Paul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>
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Subject: Re: [Patch] Kernel configuration in kernel, kernel 2.5.53
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On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:40:09PM +0100, Paul Rolland wrote:
 > > 
 > > You could write a simple script to install a kernel image and 
 > > install the .config under /boot as well. Guess that solves your 
 > > problem better.
 > > 
 > Yes, but this still makes the configuration something external to
 > the kernel, thus it is still possible to have a mismatch between
 > the kernel and this file, and this is what I'm trying to avoid :-)

Google for Randy Dunlaps ikconfig patches.
They solve the problem by appending the .config to the kernel image,
thus not bloating any kernel space memory with /proc junk.

		Dave

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