On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:27:25 -0700 [email protected] wrote:
> From: Ross Biro <[email protected]>
>
> The driver for /proc/config.gz consumes rather a lot of memory and it is in
> fact possible to build it as a module.
>
> In some ways this is a bit risky, because the .config which is used for
> compiling kernel/configs.c isn't necessarily the same as the .config which was
> used to build vmlinux.
>
> But OTOH the potential memory savings are decent, and it'd be fairly dumb to
> build your configs.o with a different .config.
so after getting several disagreements on this, you are going ahead
with it. I'm disappointed, but I agree that you have a right to
do so. (IOW, I wouldn't be disappointed if some other patches
were merged even though someone disapproved of them :)
And the memory savings are not a big deal. You even mentioned that
you had it confused with /proc/kallsyms.
---
~Randy
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