Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020204124812.00aec590@mail.osagesoftware.com>
By author:    David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I remember discussion of that patch some time ago and the main complaint 
> about it was that it increases the size of the kernel, i.e. vmlinuz.  Why 
> not put the need info in a module?  Doing that would enable the following 
> command:
> 
>          zgrep CONFIG_PROC /lib/modules/`uname -r`/config.gz
> 
> (or something similar).
> 

Uhm, no.  The problem with it is that you're using kernel memory
because you're not willing to manage userspace competently, so modules
(in fact, *using modules at all*) would be right out.

I have had in my /sbin/installkernel a clause to save .config as
config-<foo> when I install vmlinuz-<foo>; I believe anyone not doing
that[1] is, quite frankly, a moron.

	-hpa

[1] or rather, not doing it without knowing exactly why they aren't --
sometimes there are good reasons for doing so.
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