Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Feb 2002 00:34:13 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: How to check the kernel compile options ? |
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On 20020204 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.
Mandrake (and think also redhat) save the kenel config used at /boot/config-x.y.z-abc
So look for /boot/config-`uname -r`
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