On 4/30/08, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:45:57 -0700 SL Baur wrote: > > Is there any reasonable way to embed the configuration file name in the kernel > > image like BSD does it? /proc/config.gz is a good way to retrieve way to > > retrieve configuration information on a running system, not so good for pushing > > kernels out to a network and keeping track of the config files on the build > > machine. > > > I don't know how BSD does it, but CONFIG_IKCONFIG does embed the > config image in the kernel. It can be extracted with > scripts/extract-ikconfig. No, that's not what I meant. Now that we have a means of specifying a configuration file by name, it would be nice if the file name could, for example, be appended to EXTRAVERSION. That's all it would take to duplicate the behavior I misdescribed. Eg. `make K=HPxw4300.config ...' would have "-HPxw4300" appended to EXTRAVERSION. Maybe this doesn't make sense any more, but it was once something I wanted very much. -sb -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
