[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>
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index d2eb7a8..899e46e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
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 ea41de8..1c73c5ae 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
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