From de0a8458f0030feff22abeb59c0d771e708003c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Chin <achin@eminence32.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 18:31:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Make the flate2 dependency optional

---
 Cargo.toml |  4 ++--
 src/lib.rs | 23 +++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ac916936..0916fbec 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 edition = "2018"
 
 [features]
-default = ["chrono"]
+default = ["chrono", "flate2"]
 
 [dependencies]
 libc = "0.2"
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ lazy_static = "1"
 chrono = {version = "0.4", optional = true }
 byteorder = {version="1", features=["i128"]}
 hex = "0.4"
-flate2 = "1"
+flate2 = { version = "1", optional = true }
 backtrace = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index f7950e0e..bac9f7a5 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -671,13 +671,24 @@ pub enum ConfigSetting {
 ///
 /// If CONFIG_KCONFIG_PROC is available, the config is read from `/proc/config.gz`.
 /// Else look in `/boot/config-$(uname -r)` or `/boot/config` (in that order).
+///
+/// # Notes
+/// Reading the compress `/proc/config.gz` is only supported if the `flate2` feature is enabled
+/// (which it is by default).
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "flate2", doc = "The flate2 feature is currently enabled")]
+#[cfg_attr(not(feature = "flate2"), doc = "The flate2 feature is NOT currently enabled")]
 pub fn kernel_config() -> ProcResult<HashMap<String, ConfigSetting>> {
-    use flate2::read::GzDecoder;
-
-    let reader: Box<dyn BufRead> = if Path::new(PROC_CONFIG_GZ).exists() {
-        let file = FileWrapper::open(PROC_CONFIG_GZ)?;
-        let decoder = GzDecoder::new(file);
-        Box::new(BufReader::new(decoder))
+    let reader: Box<dyn BufRead> = if Path::new(PROC_CONFIG_GZ).exists() && cfg!(feature = "flate2") {
+        #[cfg(feature = "flate2")]
+        {
+            let file = FileWrapper::open(PROC_CONFIG_GZ)?;
+            let decoder = flate2::read::GzDecoder::new(file);
+            Box::new(BufReader::new(decoder))
+        }
+        #[cfg(not(feature = "flate2"))]
+        {
+            unreachable!("flate2 feature not enabled")
+        }
     } else {
         let mut kernel: libc::utsname = unsafe { mem::zeroed() };
 

From 14757fa894614209eb5029a00784c53813bbcc7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Chin <achin@eminence32.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:51:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Updated README and lib.rs about the `flate2` feature

---
 README.md  | 1 +
 src/lib.rs | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2209e80d..fe9fcb8a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ details.
 The following cargo features are available:
 
 * `chrono` -- Default.  Optional.  This feature enables a few methods that return values as `DateTime` objects.
+* `flate2` -- Default.  Optional.  This feature enables parsing gzip compressed `/proc/config.gz` file via the `procfs::kernel_config` method.
 * `backtrace` -- Optional.  This feature lets you get a stack trace whenever an `InternalError` is raised.
 
 ## Minimum Rust Version
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index bac9f7a5..d9f79aca 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 //! The following cargo features are available:
 //!
 //! * `chrono` -- Default.  Optional.  This feature enables a few methods that return values as `DateTime` objects.
+//! * `flate2` -- Default.  Optional.  This feature enables parsing gzip compressed `/proc/config.gz` file via the `procfs::kernel_config` method.
 //! * `backtrace` -- Optional.  This feature lets you get a stack trace whenever an `InternalError` is raised.
 //!
 //! # Examples