Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 17:12:57 EST


Followup to: <4.3.2.7.2.20020204133252.00c50f00@mail.osagesoftware.com>
By author: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> >I have had in my /sbin/installkernel a clause to save .config as
> >config-<foo> when I install vmlinuz-<foo>; I believe anyone not doing
> >that[1] is, quite frankly, a moron.
>
> Why not a simple patch for "make install" to do this?
>

Good thought. I was waiting for the various kernel build changes in
2.5 to overhaul make install, but a small thing should be doable in
2.4. Note that if you have an /sbin/installkernel it overrides make
install -- as it should be.

        -hpa

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