> -----Original Message----- > From: John Levon [mailto:moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:03 AM > To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org > Subject: Re: Seeking kernel params from an active running kernel. > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:52:12PM +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: > > > >you can't really do this at all. > > > > > I got that kind of response in the irc channel as well and > I'm trying to > > understand ,why it's impossible? > > well as you point out yourself modules can't be determined > via this method. > Basically there's no way you can tell from symbols or just the image > what source defines were used. The modules can be determined by what files are present beneath /lib/modules. Do you have that information? > furthermore I don't see the point in doing this at all. Just > keep the config > file file around, cat it to the end of vmlinuz, add > /proc/config.gz, whatever I can think of a very good reason to want this information. Some of the commercial Linux distributions do not include the .config file used to build their binary kernel distributions. I've been frustrated by this before. It's yet another reason to prefer Debian. - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
