From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759078AbYDVQxc (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:53:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755373AbYDVQxY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:53:24 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.235]:41854 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755137AbYDVQxY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:53:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=s0xnJvwOW4Ja0zu7wGa/cG1TCi5HMZGFOX18YcsUpp5CFgdGMy63VFAm/7VgA1w4GzBmiX91pERzJuLZJU3F/tXX0qeesVkDZ9FpxXxQaEDP0FE2P9fcKbBfmAGedhOxHns8vteT3jNBKMqkfxGtZV1sVWKtPcM8oPLiLZuvx/s= Message-ID: <5681ec900804220953g187b792eib424c7af4cd3df4f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:23:21 +0530 From: "Sanjeev Aditya Naga" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: config file part of kernel! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Will it be good, if we make the `config` file (used to build a kernel) part of the built kernel. So that one in need, can extract it from the kernel using some userspace tool!? During the configuration of kernel, we usually set the required functionality. However, if we delete the sources/config file or loose the config file, but later we wanted to add up some module(s) to the same kernel, it'd be great if we will be able to extract some info from the kernel along with the config params!?? Regards, Sanjeev