On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:47:42PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > I have a very vague recollection that one or two packages (probably > not in BLFS) used to pick up kernel details by looking at > /usr/src/linux , if it existed, in the very distant past. ISTR they > actually wanted to know the capabilities of the _running_ kernel. > To clarify: consider the situation where you suspect you have a kernel bug. Say you are now on 3.12.0 and had previously used 3.11.5. As a first step, boot 3.11.5 [ assuming you kept it around, of course ] to see if things are different. Any application looking at /usr/src/linux has no guarantees that the source (or indeed the .config there) matches what is running.
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