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SubjectRe: How to check the kernel compile options ?
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On February 4, 2002 07:14 pm, 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.

Could you show me where I suggested putting it "permanently in unswappable memory"?

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Daniel
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