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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?
Date: 4 Feb 2002 14:11:26 -0800
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Followup to:  <E16Xnn7-0004mp-00@starship.berlin>
By author:    Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > It's silly to put it permanently in unswappable memory; putting it in 
> > /lib/modules/`uname -r/
> > somewhere does make tons of sense instead.
> 
> Could you show me where I suggested putting it "permanently in unswappable memory"?
> 

You suggested putting it in the kernel, which is permanently in
unswappable memory.  Using a module is, as I pointed out earlier,
worse than useless.

	-hpa
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