[Linux-disciples] 2.6.7 kernel (fwd)

[Stephen R Laniel]

Note that Adam expressed his preference for 'make
menuconfig' in an earlier message. I have no choice but to
conclude that Adam is in fact a very helpful bot.

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Subject: Re: [Linux-disciples] 2.6.7 kernel
From: Adam Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org>
To: Community of interest for free software support <linux-disciples at lists.bostoncoop.net>
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:12:03 -0400
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On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 16:06, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > But you should just build your own, like other real men.
> I'm just getting to this now. It's been a while since I've
> rebuilt the kernel, and I was going to ask you guys whether
> one could extract configuration information from a running
> kernel, rather than having to keep the config info from the
> kernel source laying around. Turns out that the IKCONFIG
> does just that.

Yeah, but it's also always in /boot/config-`uname -r`, as I said in my
last email.

> It also turns out that 'make xconfig' is much more
> user-friendly than I remember it being. Neat neat neat.

I prefer make menuconfig, but to each his own.  

Also note make oldconfig, which only prompts you for questions which are
new since the last config was made.

> /*
> Kernel .config support (IKCONFIG)
> 
> This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
> contents, information on compiler used to build the kernel,
> kernel running when this kernel was built and kernel version
> from Makefile to be saved in the kernel. It provides
> documentation of which kernel options are used in a running
> kernel or in an on-disk kernel. This information can be
> extracted from the kernel image file with the script
> scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as input to rebuild the
> current kernel or to build another kernel. It can also be
> extracted from a running kernel by reading /proc/config.gz
> and /proc/config_built_with, if enabled (below).
> /proc/config.gz will list the configuration that was used
> to build the kernel and /proc/config_built_with will list
> information on the compiler and host machine that was used
> to build the kernel.
> */
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