Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751175AbWE2EoH (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 00:44:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751174AbWE2EoG (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 00:44:06 -0400 Received: from gw.openss7.com ([142.179.199.224]:19135 "EHLO gw.openss7.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169AbWE2EoF (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2006 00:44:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 22:44:02 -0600 From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" To: Lee Revell Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Heiko Carstens , devmazumdar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? Message-ID: <20060528224402.A13279@openss7.org> Reply-To: bidulock@openss7.org Mail-Followup-To: Lee Revell , Arjan van de Ven , Heiko Carstens , devmazumdar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1148596163.31038.30.camel@mindpipe> <1148653797.3579.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060528130320.GA10385@osiris.ibm.com> <1148835799.3074.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1148838738.21094.65.camel@mindpipe> <1148839964.3074.52.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1148846131.27461.14.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1148846131.27461.14.camel@mindpipe>; from rlrevell@joe-job.com on Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:55:29PM -0400 Organization: http://www.openss7.org/ Dsn-Notification-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 24 Lee, On Sun, 28 May 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > Debugging. When a new Linux user files a "no sound" ALSA bug report I > need to find out whether they have any known broken options enabled, > like USB bandwidth checking or the OSS USB midi/audio drivers. If we > have to go back and forth figuring out which distro they have and where > the config is they are that much more likely to give up and go back to > Windows. > Bug reports is another advantage that I found with the autoconf approach to building kernel modules (previous cited): automatic generation of bug reports containing full configuration information using a send-pr script generated by the 'configure' script. --brian - 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/