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authorRoss Biro <rossb@google.com>2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-01 00:39:20 -0700
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tree7a2da6ef78d69f92e44d660a7a041de4147aea20
parent756184b7d771992f4fb1998d62aebcaf3e028076 (diff)
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[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>
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index d2eb7a84a264..899e46eec1b2 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 ea41de8fb7f5..1c73c5aea66b 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