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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:52:59 -0700
From: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel .config support?
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"Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
> 
> On 2 Jan 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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
> 
> that's odd.  the selection for kernel .config support has been in
> the red hat config menus for at least the last release, as well
> as the extraction script .../scripts/extract-ikconfig.  but this
> never worked due to a missing "binoffset" utility.  i even filed
> a bugzilla on that (bug 65677).
> 
> just curious -- how did that ever end up in the distributed red hat
> kernel if it was never standard?  strange.
> 

Redhat kernel is not the same as standard kernel (the official one, on
kernel.org). Redhat adds a number of patches to the standard kernel
before releasing it.

-- 
Khalid

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Khalid Aziz                                Linux and Open Source Lab
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khalid@hp.com                                       Fort Collins, CO

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