Why no /proc/config.gz on FC-3 kernel?
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Nov 28 06:07:58 UTC 2004
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:10:19PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > One good reason to do it is that you can be sure the config matches
> > exactly what is currently running.
> ls /boot/config-`uname -r`
I guess the argument is: there's a chance that something got skipped and the
a kernel got built with the name matching a /boot/config-* file but actually
with different options -- no risk of that with the /proc approach.
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