Improved INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE

[Alex Kozlov]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:12:33AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >Overall, having the config file loaded strikes me as a waste of RAM.
> >
> As Larry mentioned, the kernel config file (say GENERIC) is about 10k 
> uncompressed.  If it's bzipped or gzipped, as it is (including comments, 
> etc) it ends up ~4k.  My kernel, is about 7500k (not far from GENERIC), 
> so the additional .05% is probably not noticeable by anyone.
gzip is a bad idea. If You compress config, 
strings kernel | grep ^___ | sed -e 's/^___//'
would no longer work.


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