Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:50:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:49:52 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:20435 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:49:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3AC91E05.F11BFF43@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:49:09 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-20mdksmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Jackson Cc: Ian Soboroff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /proc/config idea In-Reply-To: <877l13whzw.fsf@danube.cs.umbc.edu> <3AC89389.46317572@coplanar.net> <3AC91800.22D66B24@mandrakesoft.com> <3AC91B5B.1612945D@coplanar.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeremy Jackson wrote: > If you have a lot of kernels around, which Config-2.4.3 applies to kernel 2.4.3 > given 5 to choose from...the idea (same for System.map) is that it being in the > same > file they can't be confused. Kinda like forks under Mac (but let's not go there > now) The same applies to kernel modules too. Are you going to put all those in the kernel image too? If it's a file, read it from a filesystem after the kernel has booted. There is no need to special case this stuff. -- Jeff Garzik | May you have warm words on a cold evening, Building 1024 | a full moon on a dark night, MandrakeSoft | and a smooth road all the way to your door. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/