Control: reassign -1 src:linux Control: severity -1 wishlist On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 01:39 +0300, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Package: linux-image-amd64 > Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 > > Hi, > > It would help me very much, if Debian kernel provided a quick ability > to see it's own configuration in /proc/config.gz. > > Reason: > in some cases viewing current kernel configuration via "# > /boot/config-$(uname -r)" is not available; For example when working > with Debian-installer (booting from DVD), or working inside an OpenVZ > (or LXC) container. Why would it be good for this to be exposed inside a container? > For those reasons I ask you to enable "/proc/config.gz" in all > supported Debian kernels (Debian 6, 7 and 8), if possible. This definitely will not be changed in existing stable releases. > As far as I'm aware it's stable feature, and there is no downside from > enabling it. [...] There is a downside: it consumes more memory and disk space (though not that much). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct one.
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