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Subject: Re: kernel .config support?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   whatever happened to that funky option from 2.4 --
> for kernel .config support, which allegedly buried the
> config file inside the kernel itself.  (it never worked --
> the alleged extraction script scripts/extract-ikconfig
> depended on a program called "binoffset" that didn't 
> exist in that distribution.)

Its never been in the standard 2.4 kernel. The facility has been in the
-ac kernel, and was recently submitted for consideration in 2.5

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