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

From: Michael Rothwell (rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 10:30:37 EDT

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Nathan Paul Simons wrote:
> kernel configs with the same kernel version. Since you will probably be
> changing the EXTRAVERSION variable anyway (to differentiate between different

How about addining an additional item to the config scripts: a "build
id". This can be any random string. It just gets statically compiled
into the kernel, and is retrieved via `cat /proc/build-id` or whatever.
This will allow users to match up a running kernel with its config data,
without actually cramming the data into the kernel.

-M
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