On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Tuesday, December 12, 2000 at 06:28:18 ( +1100), Luke Mewburn wrote: ]
> > Subject: proposed mods to config(8) and the kernel build process
> >
> > b) Store a copy of the kernel's config file in the kernel itself,
> >    in a manner that's easily extractable by a user.
> 
> IIRC FreeBSD has had this feature since at least 2.2.8 or before.
> 
> Such a feature is a "good" thing, I think.  A complete copy of the
> original file, after processing "include" statements of course, is ideal
> -- i.e. it would be best to keep everything, comments and all....

Such a feature is a good thing unless the goal is to ultimately eliminate the
config file and replace it with .conf settings or something similar (as the
FreeBSD loader is).