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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:02:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: How to check the kernel compile options ? 
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > The advantage, of course is that if you are executing the kernel,
> > it can give you all the information necessary to recreate a
> > new one from the sources because its .config is embeded into
> > itself. Once you have the ".config" file, you just do `make oldconfig`
> > and you are home free.
> 
> But it does no such thing! You not only need the config file, you need the
> source. So you now need to add to the kernel the entire source tree from
> which it was built, or perhaps just a diff file from a kernel.org source,
> which you will suitably compress, of course.

What the F..? You are outa your mind. The PURPOSE is to create a .config
from which one can do a `make oldconfig` and get the same drivers,
modules, etc., that you have in the running kernel.

Of course you need a kernel source-code tree.

[SNIPPED rest of g...]

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.


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