On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:26:12AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Cannot we just install .config to the same directory as modules?  If

What's wrong with /lib/modules/version/build/.config? 

> kernel doesn't support modules, then there is no point to compile any new
> modules against it.  But if it does, then we can be sure that the modules
> correspond to that configuration file, because the modules and .config
> would be installed by the same command.

you need the build symlink to compile a module against this kernel
anyway, because you need its includes, not to mention its build
system. 

Cheers, 
Muli 
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