Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:12:25 -0500 (CDT)


On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Tom Leete wrote:

> Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Lang wrote:
> > > > if we want to get the .config as part of the report then we need to make
> > > > it part of the kernel in some standard way (the old /proc/config flamewar)
> > > > it's difficult enough sometimes for the sysadmin of a box to know what
> > > > kernel is running on it, let alone a bug reporting script.
> > >
> > > Let's hope it's not a flamewar, but here goes :)
> > >
> > > We -need- .config, but /proc/config seems like pure bloat.
> >
> > As a former proponent of /proc/config (I wrote one of the much-debated
> > patches), I tend to agree. Debian's make-kpkg does the right thing, namely
> > treating .config the same way it treats System-map, putting it in the
> > package and eventually installing it in /boot/config-x.y.z. If Redhat's
> > kernel-install script did the same it would rapidly become a non-issue.
>
> How about /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.config ? It's already there.

It'd be great if we got away from the config being hidden too.

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