Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262569AbVDPCcM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:32:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262578AbVDPCcM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:32:12 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:41740 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262569AbVDPCcI (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:32:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 04:32:06 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: John M Collins Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Lars Marowsky-Bree , Helge Hafting , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels Message-ID: <20050416023206.GH4831@stusta.de> References: <1113298455.16274.72.camel@caveman.xisl.com> <425BBDF9.9020903@ev-en.org> <1113318034.3105.46.camel@caveman.xisl.com> <20050412210857.GT11199@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1113341579.3105.63.camel@caveman.xisl.com> <425CEAC2.1050306@aitel.hist.no> <20050413125921.GN17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20050413130646.GF32354@marowsky-bree.de> <20050413132308.GP17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <1113400906.10763.20.camel@caveman.xisl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1113400906.10763.20.camel@caveman.xisl.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 32 On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:01:46PM +0100, John M Collins wrote: >... > Could I possibly make a suggestion for "make xconfig" in the kernel tree > (and make other-kinds-of-config I suppose)? > > I currently routinely copy the ".config" out of the previous kernel tree > before I start to save working through questions about sound cards I > never heard of and so forth. > > Could it perhaps optionally initialise most of the settings to fit the > current machine and/or grab the last lot of settings > from /proc/config.gz? zcat /proc/config.gz > .config cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/