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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?
Date: 4 Feb 2002 14:12:57 -0800
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Followup to:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020204133252.00c50f00@mail.osagesoftware.com>
By author:    David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> >I have had in my /sbin/installkernel a clause to save .config as
> >config-<foo> when I install vmlinuz-<foo>; I believe anyone not doing
> >that[1] is, quite frankly, a moron.
> 
> Why not a simple patch for "make install" to do this?
> 

Good thought.  I was waiting for the various kernel build changes in
2.5 to overhaul make install, but a small thing should be doable in
2.4.  Note that if you have an /sbin/installkernel it overrides make
install -- as it should be.

	-hpa
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