[PATCH] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module
authorRoss Biro <rossb@google.com>
Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:25 +0000 (23:27 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sun, 1 Oct 2006 07:39:20 +0000 (00:39 -0700)
commitf2443ab6c485701576e9116ee44817e66adafd5a
tree7a2da6ef78d69f92e44d660a7a041de4147aea20
parent756184b7d771992f4fb1998d62aebcaf3e028076
[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 <akpm@google.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
init/Kconfig
scripts/Makefile