Why no /proc/config.gz on FC-3 kernel?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Nov 27 20:31:24 UTC 2004


On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 08:28:16PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 > I just noticed that the official FC-3 kernel (linux-2.6.8-667)
 > doesn't output /proc/config.gz .
 > I wonder why not?

the same reasons that it wasnt when this came up 2-3 days
ago on this list.  We already ship the config in /boot
Putting it into /proc wastes memory for no good reason
for every user.

		Dave




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