On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y would be a one-off thing, only to make the whole > concept self-hosting. If i boot a localyesconfig kernel, how does > the script figure out what is built in? It cannot, unless i provide > it the precise .config - but often that wont be provided. The script > should clone the environment it is running in really. Does IKCONFIG get loaded in the running kernel if IKCONFIG_PROC is not set, or does it just sit in the vmlinux file. Since this option can also be used for helping embedded developers (I used it for that) I would not want to bloat the kernel with running a script that is suppose to minimize it. But if IKCONFIG && !IKCONFIG_PROC does not add more data to the kernel, then I would be happy to turn it on by default. I see I can use scripts/extract-ikconfig to get the config from the current image. Now which image should it try? /boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` ./vmlinux I could have it first try /proc/config.gz and if it does not find it then try the /boot kernel, if it does not find it or does not find a config file in it, it would then try ./vmlinux file. If it does not find the file or the config then it would just use the local .config. -- Steve -- 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
