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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
>>     buffer, kernel message buffer, kernel configuration (if compiled into
>>     the kernel), panic message, and kernel version string.  These are
>
> Just a sidenote - maybe as part of this change it makes sense to make 
> compiling configuration into a kernel opt-out, not opt-in? We are in 21st 
> century, nobody really cares about saving few kilobytes of kernel memory 
> anymore.

I'd certainly be fine with it being added to GENERIC on our various 
architectures.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge