Re: [patch 024/144] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:27:25 -0700 akpm@osdl.org wrote:

> From: Ross Biro <rossb@google.com>
> 
> 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.

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~Randy