From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Strange, John" <John.ws.Strange@marconi.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: include/linux/autoconf.h missing from 2.4.13?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:34:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011031223433.A4927@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <313680C9A886D511A06000204840E1CF3F0F02@whq-msgusr-02.pit.comms.marconi.com>
In-Reply-To: <313680C9A886D511A06000204840E1CF3F0F02@whq-msgusr-02.pit.comms.marconi.com>; from John.ws.Strange@marconi.com on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:37:35PM -0500
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:37:35PM -0500, Strange, John wrote:
> This is really odd and I've double checked but for some reason a kernel that
> I downloaded from
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.13.tar.gz doesn't seem
> to have the autoconf.h
The release kernels aren't supposed to have an autoconf.h - they're
generated by the make config / make menuconfig / make xconfig stage.
> Now the weird thing is that I downloaded this to another machine yesterday
> from the same url, which seems to have the autoconf.h??? I'm a little
> confused at the inconsistency and it worried me a little bit as possibly
> being tampered with?
You can always verify the integrity of your downloaded package - see
http://www.kernel.org/signature.html for instructions on this. This
will show if any tampering has occured, but I doubt it.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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2001-10-31 20:37 include/linux/autoconf.h missing from 2.4.13? Strange, John
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