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Subject: Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit
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Why not have the /proc/config option but instead of being plain text, 
make it binary with a userspace app that can interpret it?

It could have a signature as to kernel version + patches and the rest 
would be just bits.

Instead of:

CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
# CONFIG_SBUS is not set
CONFIG_UID16=y

You'd have
2.4.3-pre3:1101111100000100000000 . . . . .

-b

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