Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:25:05 -0500 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz |
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** Reply to message from Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> on Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:49:34 +1100
> >Wow, this is incredibly useful!!! Why, or why, isn't this part of the standard > >kernel?!?!? It would save so many headaches building kernels. > > Because it is easier to solve the problem in user space. Just copy > .config to /lib/modules/<version>. Look at modutils 2.3.14 onwards, it > has a list of /lib/modules/<version>/filenames that will be ignored. > modprobe -c reports
It's not the same thing. /proc/config.gz guarantees that you'll get the right information from the currently running kernel. Your method relies on having matching files around, which pretty much negates the whole point behind /proc/config.gz.
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