Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: How to check the kernel compile options ? | Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2002 19:24:33 +0100 |
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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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