[Gllug] kernel new/old config

[Roger Whittaker]

I'm not sure whether this is SuSE-spcific, but what we do is to look at
/proc/config.gz

That contains the kernel config of the running kernel.


On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Alain Williams wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 03:52:29PM +0100, Paul Brazier wrote:
> > > Just a quickie:  how to do you make xconfig using an existing
> > > kernel as a
> > > template?  But not oldconfig?  I did this a couple of years
> > > ago, but for the
> > > life of me cannot remember how.
> >
> > I think it's stored in /usr/src/linux/.config which you can import from
> > the "make xconfig" form.
> > That's assuming you compiled the previous kernel, I don't think there's
> > a way of extracting the kernel config from a binary-only kernel (might
> > be wrong here).
>
> No, not easy. That sort of thing has been talked about, but not implemented.
>
>

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