Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

Adrian Bunk
2005-04-16T02:32:12Z

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:01:46PM +0100, John M Collins wrote:
>...
> Could I possibly make a suggestion for "make xconfig" in the kernel tree
> (and make other-kinds-of-config I suppose)?
>
> I currently routinely copy the ".config" out of the previous kernel tree
> before I start to save working through questions about sound cards I
> never heard of and so forth.
>
> Could it perhaps optionally initialise most of the settings to fit the
> current machine and/or grab the last lot of settings
> from /proc/config.gz?

zcat /proc/config.gz > .config

cu
Adrian

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