Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com ([209.85.219.211]:51301 "EHLO mail-ew0-f211.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752562AbZI3BTh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:19:37 -0400 Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so5998752ewy.17 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:19:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <69e28c910909291127x3be75be0r3ceef7367d05f9c3@mail.gmail.com> References: <200909260457.21103.malte.gell@gmx.de> <4ABDE7AC.1090409@hauke-m.de> <200909291050.54388.malte.gell@gmx.de> <3ace41890909290200h4dbefddah131851675dc06097@mail.gmail.com> <69e28c910909291127x3be75be0r3ceef7367d05f9c3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:19:41 +0100 Message-ID: <3ace41890909291819x4f01c6c9p475ea3a4bb075342@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: cannot compile compate-wirless snapshots From: Hin-Tak Leung To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Cc: Malte Gell , Hauke Mehrtens , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2009/9/29 G?bor Stefanik : > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> The relevant config is probably /boot/config-`uname -r`, but, please >> do *not* modify it. >> > > It should be in /proc/config.gz. (/boot/config-* is an Ubuntuism.) John pointed out Fedora & RHEL does /boot/config-* . (and don't provide /proc/config.gz). I don't know which distro does /proc/config.gz Obviously neither Ubuntu nor Fedora/RHEL; maybe one of Mandriva/Debian/Suse? As a point of interest, /boot also contains the init ramdisk, the kernel symbol map besides the kernel image (beside some grub/boot-loader files), so it isn't too much to have another kernel related file. For the purist, building the kernel to have self-knowledge of its own config under /proc is a neat thing, but OTOH, it uses kernel memory to provide what is very static unchanging info under /proc, which is unwise.