Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964809AbWEZAYV (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 20:24:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932334AbWEZAYU (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 20:24:20 -0400 Received: from agrajag.inprovide.com ([82.153.166.94]:33678 "EHLO mail.inprovide.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932182AbWEZAYU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 May 2006 20:24:20 -0400 To: Diego Calleja Cc: dev@opensound.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? References: <1148596163.31038.30.camel@mindpipe> <20060526010041.6f9ecde7.diegocg@gmail.com> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 01:24:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20060526010041.6f9ecde7.diegocg@gmail.com> (Diego Calleja's message of "Fri, 26 May 2006 01:00:41 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.15 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 26 Diego Calleja writes: > El Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:22 -0400, > Lee Revell escribi?: > >> I'd really like to see a distro-agnostic way to retrieve the kernel >> configuration. /proc/config.gz has existed for soem time but many >> distros inexplicably don't enable it. > > /proc/config.gz takes a bit of memory, and wasting such memory when Yes, 9k on my machine. > you can store the config at /boot/config-`uname -r` is a bit weird. There's no guaranteeing that file will match the running kernel. Then again, modules can be changed without /proc/config.gz changing. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@inprovide.com - 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/