/proc/config.gz support on? Why not?

Paul W. Frields paul at frields.com
Wed Nov 24 15:40:53 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 10:28 -0500, Peter Arremann wrote:
> I can only guess on what the original intend of this mail was - but how does 
> the config get into /boot if you roll your own kernel? if the support for 
> config.gz is on, you're guaranteed to find the config of the currently 
> running kernel in /proc/config.gz, no matterr if you run a stock or your own 
> kernel, no matter how many kernels you have installed, ...
> 
> I can see the benefit - especially since I'm maintaining a environment with a 
> couple hundret linux boxes in various configurations.

>From what I can see in the specfile, the .config used is always stored
at /boot/config-<version> as part of the kernel RPM building process.




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