From: Ross Biro Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:25 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~613 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f2443ab6c485701576e9116ee44817e66adafd5a;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module The driver for /proc/config.gz consumes rather a lot of memory and it is in fact possible to build it as a module. In some ways this is a bit risky, because the .config which is used for compiling kernel/configs.c isn't necessarily the same as the .config which was used to build vmlinux. But OTOH the potential memory savings are decent, and it'd be fairly dumb to build your configs.o with a different .config. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index d2eb7a84a2..899e46eec1 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ config AUDITSYSCALL ensure that INOTIFY is configured. config IKCONFIG - bool "Kernel .config support" + tristate "Kernel .config support" ---help--- This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation diff --git a/scripts/Makefile b/scripts/Makefile index ea41de8fb7..1c73c5aea6 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile +++ b/scripts/Makefile @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ hostprogs-$(CONFIG_VT) += conmakehash hostprogs-$(CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE) += conmakehash hostprogs-$(CONFIG_IKCONFIG) += bin2c -always := $(hostprogs-y) +always := $(hostprogs-y) $(hostprogs-m) # The following hostprogs-y programs are only build on demand hostprogs-y += unifdef