[PATCH] Move ikconfig to /proc/config.gz

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@verizon.net>


The SuSE kernels place their ikconfig info at /proc/config.gz: in a
different place, and compressed.  We thought it was a good idea to do it
that way in 2.6 as well.

- gzip the /proc config file, put it in /proc/config.gz;

- Based on a SuSE patch by Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>, which was
  derived from a patch by Nicholas Leon <nicholas@binary9.net>

- change /proc/ikconfig/built_with to /proc/config_build_info;

- cleanup ikconfig init/exit entry points (static, __init, __exit);

- Makefile help from Sam Ravnborg;

DESC
ikconfig cleanup
EDESC
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

Simplify and cleanup the code:
	- use single interface to seq_file where possible
	- don't need to do as much of the /proc interface, only read
	- use copy_to_user to avoid char at a time copy
	- remove unneccesary globals
	- use const char[] rather than const char * where possible.

Didn't change the version since interface doesn't change.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/mkconfigs b/scripts/mkconfigs
index 7d5a6c214f1e..fc9c3dd978bc 100755
--- a/scripts/mkconfigs
+++ b/scripts/mkconfigs
@@ -66,15 +66,13 @@ echo \
  *
  */"
 
-echo "static char *ikconfig_built_with ="
+echo "#ifdef CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC"
+echo "static char const ikconfig_build_info[] ="
 echo "    \"`uname -s` `uname -r` `uname -v` `uname -m`\";"
+echo "#endif"
 echo
 kernel_version $makefile
-echo "#ifdef CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC"
-echo "static char *ikconfig_config = "
-echo "#else"
-echo "static char *ikconfig_config __initdata __attribute__((unused)) = "
-echo "#endif"
+echo "static char const ikconfig_config[] __attribute__((unused)) = "
 echo "\"CONFIG_BEGIN=n\\n\\"
 echo "`cat $config | sed 's/\"/\\\\\"/g' | grep "^#\? \?CONFIG_" | awk '{ print $0 "\\\\n\\\\" }' `"
 echo "CONFIG_END=n\\n\";"