On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:01:55PM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:46:39AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:28:38AM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get up to speed with Linux kernel development and have a
> > > few questions:
> > >
> > > 1. According to the book I'm reading (_Linux Kernel Development_ by
> > > Robert Love) the current kernel's configuration can be found at
> > > /proc/config.gz. But on Fedora, that's not the case, and it's in /boot/
> > > as config-{VERSION}. How do I use this in the same way that I would have
> > > used /proc/config.gz?
> >
> > It's the same format, but the one in boot isn't gzipped, and doesn't use
> > up kernel memory.
>
> When I copied it into my development tree as .config and did:
>
> make oldconfig
>
> the environment seemed to want to redo the whole thing. Maybe I'm doing
> something wrong?
If the version of the config is older than the tree you're building,
it will ask you questions. This is expected.
Dave
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