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