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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:22:09 -0800 (PST)
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel .config support?
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

| On 2 Jan 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
|
| > 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
|
| 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).

I wasn't aware of this...oh well.
"binoffset.c" is available at
  http://www.osdl.org/archive/rddunlap/patches/

| just curious -- how did that ever end up in the distributed red hat
| kernel if it was never standard?  strange.

Not really.

-- 
~Randy

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