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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?
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On 20020204 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>> > What he is saying is that you can't do that, generically. Some options are
>> > available at runtime through /proc, but most are not. You need to check what
>> > happend back at compile time.
>> 
>> Right, there is a religious issue here: some core kernel hackers believe
>> that it is wrong to encode kernel configuration in the kernel, and that
>> is why it's not available.  Technically it is not difficult, nor is it
>> difficult to make it memory-efficient.
>
>It's silly to put it permanently in unswappable memory; putting it in 
>/lib/modules/`uname -r/
>somewhere does make tons of sense instead.

Mandrake (and think also redhat) save the kenel config used at
/boot/config-x.y.z-abc

So look for /boot/config-`uname -r`

-- 
J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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