Re: [PLUG] Playing with Fire?

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

Kevin Brosius wrote:
> 
> Jon Nelson wrote:
> >
> > Tobias DiPasquale said:
> > > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:46, Jon Nelson wrote:
> > > Yeah but 'make oldconfig' relies on the .config file. If its not
> > > present, there is pretty much no way to figure out exactly what's in the
> > > kernel with disassembling it.
> > >
> > uhhhhh...To the best of my recolection I didn't have a .config until I ran
> > 'make oldconfig'.  Also from Red Hats site:
> >
> > "make oldconfig - This is a  non-interactive script that will set up your
> > configuration file to contain the default settings. If you are using the
> > default Red Hat Linux kernel, it will create a configuration file for the
> > kernel that shipped with Red Hat Linux for your architecture. This is
> > useful for setting up your kernel to known working defaults and then
> > turning off features that you do not want."
> >
> > Maybe this is just Red Hat, I dunno.
> 
> Maybe RH modifies the oldconfig target.  I know SuSE offers another
> option which can read the config of a running kernel.  It's called 'make
> cloneconfig' and works as long as the kernel is built with an option to
> generate a compressed copy of the config in the compiled kernel
> (/proc/config.gz.)  As far as I know this is SuSE specific though, so
> you'll need to use their kernel RPMs for this to work.

Forgot the link...  More info at:

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/maddin_kernel_config.html

-- 
Kevin Brosius
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