George Metz wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
>
> > This wouldn't be the "proconfig" patch would it? With this patch, you
> > can type "cat /proc/config" and it will give you a list of features
> > set, in the form of a Config file for the running kernel.
> > > Fairly neat, if not much of a use to the LRP/LEAF images. =)
> >
> > I would think it would be very useful, especially with everyone having
> > different needs...
>
> How so? I suppose you could use it to grab the config from a running
> kernel in order to upgrade, but it's not as useful as it could be, what
> with a lack of any way to include the patches.
It would be useful in scenarios like these:
ONE:
Mr. Wizard downloads an image (which has the proconfig patch
installed). He runs it on his system - which has IDE drives on it.
He does "cat /proc/config | grep IDE" to see if the kernel has IDE
support builtin.
TWO:
Mr. Greenhorn downloads an image and it won't recognize his disk. Mr.
Expert says: do this on your box:
"cat /proc/config | ssmtp [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
THREE:
Mr. Developer downloads an image, and boots it. Seeing that the
kernel is mostly what he wants, he does this:
"cat /proc/config > /mnt/Config"
and then takes the floppy disk from /mnt and moves to the development
box and does this:
"cp /mnt/Config /usr/src/linux/.config && make menuconfig"
.......there should be more options...
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