Re: [PATCH 2.5] Retrieve configuration information from kernel

Khalid Aziz (khalid_aziz@hp.com)
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:18:57 -0700


Paul Clements wrote:
>
> Have you considered compressing the config info in order to reduce
> the space wastage in the loaded kernel image? Could easily be 10's of KB
> (not that that's a lot these days). The info would then be retrieved via
> "gunzip -c", et al. instead of a simple "cat".

I wanted to start with a simple implementation first. There are a couple
of things that can be done in future to further improve meory usage: (1)
Drop "CONFIG_" and "# CONFIG_" from each line and add it back when
printing from /proc/ikconfig and extract-ikconfig script, (2) Compress
the resulting configuration. Something to do in near future :)

-- 
Khalid

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