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Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?
To: cr@sap.com (Christoph Rohland)
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:16:27 +0000 (GMT)
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> > 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?

That is indeed an extremely cunning plan. Paticularly as /proc/config can
be a symlink to it
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