* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. this is a basic usability issue. The main goal is to help regular Linux users. > I see I can use scripts/extract-ikconfig to get the config from > the current image. Now which image should it try? no, enable IKCONFIG_PROC and it will be under /proc/config.gz. > /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. yeah, that sounds like a good plan. Ingo -- 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
