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    SubjectRe: How to check the kernel compile options ?

    On 20020204 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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    >> > 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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    Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586
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