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    SubjectRe: How to check the kernel compile options ?
    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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