Re: A newbie's view

["Seth M. Landsman" <seth@job.cs.brandeis.edu>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:30:53PM -0600, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > necessary.  There are plenty of places where this idea is a good one,
> > however, a /proc/config or something similar is a better solution, IMO.
> 
> I think THAT is a fantastic idea.  I guess it has been argued before but
> having a /proc/kconfig showing what options I have turned on, along with
> values entered (sound IRQ etc) and maybe what modules were compiled with
> this kernel verion would be amazing to have.  Something that gives enuff
> info that a make kconfig rule could generate a new .config, with all these
> settings the same as before.  that way a user could untar a brand spanking
> new kernel
> 
> cd /usr/src/
> tar -zxvf linux-brand-new.tgz
> cd linux
> make kconfig
> make menuconfig (or whatever <-- all CURRENT option are now set!)
> 
> I think this would be a nice nice nice feature.  in fact, if no one does
> it, I will.

	There are patches floating around which will do this.  They are
not part of the official kernel.

-Seth
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