From: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel .config support?
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:52:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E146E6B.8CCA954E@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0301021141210.8604-100000@dell
"Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
>
> On 2 Jan 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >
> > Its never been in the standard 2.4 kernel. The facility has been in the
> > -ac kernel, and was recently submitted for consideration in 2.5
>
> that's odd. the selection for kernel .config support has been in
> the red hat config menus for at least the last release, as well
> as the extraction script .../scripts/extract-ikconfig. but this
> never worked due to a missing "binoffset" utility. i even filed
> a bugzilla on that (bug 65677).
>
> just curious -- how did that ever end up in the distributed red hat
> kernel if it was never standard? strange.
>
Redhat kernel is not the same as standard kernel (the official one, on
kernel.org). Redhat adds a number of patches to the standard kernel
before releasing it.
--
Khalid
====================================================================
Khalid Aziz Linux and Open Source Lab
(970)898-9214 Hewlett-Packard
khalid@hp.com Fort Collins, CO
"The Linux kernel is subject to relentless development"
- Alessandro Rubini
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 14:32 kernel .config support? Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-02 15:43 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-03 0:51 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-02 17:11 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-02 16:43 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-01-02 16:52 ` Khalid Aziz [this message]
2003-01-02 18:37 ` Paul Rolland
2003-01-02 23:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-05 14:47 ` [Patch 2.5] [Was: RE : kernel .config support?] Paul Rolland
2003-01-03 0:59 ` kernel .config support? Erik Hensema
[not found] <buo3co7aujp.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
[not found] ` <004701c2b553$57c0c780$3f00a8c0@witbe>
2003-01-06 15:02 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-12 14:20 ` Paul Rolland
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