Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:22:09 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: kernel .config support? |
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
| On 2 Jan 2003, Alan Cox wrote: | | > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 14:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote: | > > | > > whatever happened to that funky option from 2.4 -- | > > for kernel .config support, which allegedly buried the | > > config file inside the kernel itself. (it never worked -- | > > the alleged extraction script scripts/extract-ikconfig | > > depended on a program called "binoffset" that didn't | > > exist in that distribution.) | > | > Its never been in the standard 2.4 kernel. The facility has been in the | > -ac kernel, and was recently submitted for consideration in 2.5 | | that's odd. the selection for kernel .config support has been in | the red hat config menus for at least the last release, as well | as the extraction script .../scripts/extract-ikconfig. but this | never worked due to a missing "binoffset" utility. i even filed | a bugzilla on that (bug 65677).
I wasn't aware of this...oh well. "binoffset.c" is available at http://www.osdl.org/archive/rddunlap/patches/
| just curious -- how did that ever end up in the distributed red hat | kernel if it was never standard? strange.
Not really.
-- ~Randy
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