/proc/config.gz support on? Why not?

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Wed Nov 24 08:30:01 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 20:29 -0600, Sam Williams wrote:
> Why doesn't FC3 have the /proc/config.gz option turned on by default?
>  It
> adds such a small amount of size to the kernel and it removes the need
> to search and try and locate the config files used to build a given FC3
> kernel release?

all distros put them in /boot/config-`uname -r`.
And... why do you need to config ?

Bloating the kernel for something that's on the fs already sounds like a
bad idea to me.


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