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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?
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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:36:56 +0100
In-Reply-To: <E16YFou-0003Nm-00@the-village.bc.nu> (Alan Cox's message of
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Hi Alan,

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>> So, you should ponder whether it is worthwhile to pay this cost of
>> zero, and ponder whether it is worthwhile to pay this cost of 5 kB.
> 
> If you are going to cat it onto the end of the kernel image just
> mark it __initdata and shove a known symbol name on it. It'll get
> dumped out of memory and you can find it trivially by using tools on
> the binary

What about putting such info into a (swappable) tmpfs file with
shmem_file_setup?

Greetings
		Christoph


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