Extracting kernel config - was: Question on building a new kernel

Bryce C. plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:02:52 -0500


On mine, I just "cat /proc/config". It's not gzipped or anything.

Quoting Bart Garst <bartgarst@cox.net>:

> I looked into this and apparently RedHat does NOT enable this feature in
> their default kernels. It is rather cool though. In `make menuconfig`, under
> general setup, the help option does not elaborate on how to get the
> compressed config file out of the kernel image. How is this accomplished?
> 
> Thx,
> Bart
> 
> >>>
> Well, as I said. RH may have compiled-in support for /proc/config which is
> the
> currently running config file direct from the kernel itself.  I enable it on
> all
> my Gentoo kernels just in case.
> 
> 
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