/proc/config.z disappeared in 2.4.24

/proc/config.z disappeared in 2.4.24

[george young]

[SuSE x86 linux 8.2, 2.4.24 kernel building]
 
I've been upgrading from 2.4.20 (SuSE) to a fresh generic kernel from
ftp.kernel.org: 2.4.24.  In previous builds there
was a very handy virtual file /proc/config.z that allowed me to find
out exactly how the currently running kernel was configured. I could then do 

  cd /usr/src
  tar xvfz /tmp/linux-2.4.24.tz
  cd linux-2.4.24
  zcat /proc/config.z >.config
  make oldconfig  -- hit return a few dozen times
  make menuconfig -- fix a few things
  make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install
 
The /proc/config.z file seems to have disappeared! Is there some
config parameter that enables this? Or has it gone away between 2.4.20
and 2.4.24?

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Re: /proc/config.z disappeared in 2.4.24

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:52:24AM -0500, george young wrote:
> [SuSE x86 linux 8.2, 2.4.24 kernel building]

[...]

> The /proc/config.z file seems to have disappeared! Is there some
> config parameter that enables this? Or has it gone away between 2.4.20
> and 2.4.24?

It didn't disappear, it has never been there. Both RedHat and SuSE have
a patch that include the kernel .config in the image itself, but that
feature is not in the official 2.4 kernel (it is however in 2.6).


Erik

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