[ale] kernel .config reverse engineering

Matt Hessel matt.hessel at gmail.com
Wed May 7 17:53:02 EDT 2014


If you can't find one, you can try 'make localmodconfig' which tries to
configure the kernel config based on the modules you have loaded.
On May 7, 2014 1:14 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com> wrote:

> Those /boot/config-* files exist in RHEL and Centos as well for each
> kernel version you install.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Derek
> Atkins
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 12:25 PM
> To: mhw at WittsEnd.com
> Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] kernel .config reverse engineering
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> "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> writes:
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> > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 19:42 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >> Some distros (should?) have a config.gz somewhere under /proc for the
> >> running kernel, I thought...enabling that in the kernel configuration
> >> is something I habitually do in Gentoo.
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> > Not present in Fedora.  Interesting idea, though.
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> No, but Fedora distributes a /boot/config-`uname -r` file for each kernel.
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> -derek
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