Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 10:26:55 EDT

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    Alan Cox wrote:
    > Use that argument 50 times and your kernel has grown 100K. Unfortunately
    > everyone keeps using the argument and forgetting the cumulative effect

    :-) The thing is that this information is something you access when
    something is already going wrong. So avoiding a few possible failure
    conditions (e.g. determining the image name either requires a priori
    knowledge or depends on the boot loader) seems rather desirable to me.

    Or can we have a standard, reasonably reliable way for determining the
    path name of the currently running image ? (E.g. for LILO, the command
    is lilo -I `sed '/.*BOOT_IMAGE=\([^ ]*\).*/s//\1/' </proc/cmdline`
    But what about GRUB, LOADLIN, SILO, MILO, ... ?)

    - Werner 

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