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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:38:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
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Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On February 11, 2002 08:05 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> > Did I miss discussion of an option to put it somewhere other than as part
> > of the kernel? Sorry, I missed that.
> 
> It's a trick question?  The config option would let you specify that no 
> kernel config information at all would be stored with or in the kernel.  No 
> cost, no memory footprint.  And I would get to have the extra warm n fuzzy 
> usability I tend to go on at such lengths about.  So we're both happy, right? 
> 
> I'd even remain happy if the option were set *off* by default.

No trick other than to read what I said in either of the previous posts...
the question was not how to avoid having the useful feature, but how to
put it somewhere to avoid increasing the kernel size. I suggested in the
modules directory, either as a text file or as a module.

Disabling the feature is not the same as making it work optimally.

I like making it a module because it's obvious that modules_install is
needed. I see zero added utility from having it part of the kernel or
nothing, it's useful even to people booting from ROM, small /boot
partitions, etc.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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