[ale] kernel .config reverse engineering

Lightner, Jeff JLightner at dsservices.com
Wed May 7 13:05:13 EDT 2014


Those /boot/config-* files exist in RHEL and Centos as well for each kernel version you install.





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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

"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> Not present in Fedora.  Interesting idea, though.

No, but Fedora distributes a /boot/config-`uname -r` file for each kernel.

-derek
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