Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:50:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:50:36 -0500 Received: from dsl-65-186-161-49.telocity.com ([65.186.161.49]:13832 "EHLO nic.osagesoftware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:50:25 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020204124812.00aec590@mail.osagesoftware.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:50:30 -0500 To: lkml From: David Relson Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ? In-Reply-To: <20020204173137.6209E23CCB@persephone.dmz.logatique.fr> In-Reply-To: <3C5EB070.4370181B@uni-mb.si> <3C5EB070.4370181B@uni-mb.si> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 12:34 PM 2/4/02, you wrote: >A really useful patch makes all the options appeared in /proc/config.gz. It's >used by SuSE kernels among others (mine, too :) >You can find the patch on kernelnewbies.org (don't remember where exactly) > > >zgrep CONFIG_PROC /proc/config.gz > will give you the answer. > >I have absolutely no clue why such a useful things is not integrated into the >kernel yet. It's even useful for such things as "build a kernel using the >same options as I have on current kernel but I don't know where my .config >is". > >FWICS It seems harmful to me. > > >Thomas I remember discussion of that patch some time ago and the main complaint about it was that it increases the size of the kernel, i.e. vmlinuz. Why not put the need info in a module? Doing that would enable the following command: zgrep CONFIG_PROC /lib/modules/`uname -r`/config.gz (or something similar). David - 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/