From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, rossb@google.com, akpm@google.com,
sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [patch 024/144] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:36:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061001113600.3c318eda.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061001093954.8d2aa064.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:39:54 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> 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.
Actually I had this mentally tagged as "needs more arguing before merging"
but then forgot and went and sent it anyway.
So now it's in the "needs more arguing before we revert it" category.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-01 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-10-01 16:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-01 18:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-01 18:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-02 14:09 ` Ross Biro
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