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Subject: Re: INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE in GENERIC
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> In the interests of bringing this to a close:
> # Store the plain version of the configuration file in the kernel itself.
> # For information on extraction, and storing the comments also, see
> config(8).

Am I right in thinking that even with this change, you still end up with a 
single giant config file whereas it may have been made up of several files in 
the original and assembled using the include directive?  This means some 
caution (and a caveat of some sort) are still required.  I agree entirely that 
we should be including the comments by default.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge