kernel reporting its configuration.

Erez Strauss (erez@newplaces.com)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:30:07 +0300


Hello

Here is a small module.
It works fine with kernel 2.0.3X. It requires more work to fit
into kernel 2.1.X . It adds a file /proc/config.gz file that
contains the compressed /usr/src/linux/.config.
It enables better testability as developer knows the exact
configuration of the running kernel.

Here is the README file.

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This directory contains files that enable the kernel to hold
the kernel configuration information file in /proc/config.gz

Supports kernel version 2.0.X currently only as module.

USAGE: load the module using: insmod ./confrep.o cat /proc/config.gz | gzip -dc | less

TODO: 1. update to kernel 2.1.X 2. enable as configuration option in the .config file. 3. support static linking into the kernel.

Author: Erez Strauss <erez@newplaces.com>

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The utility is available at: http://newplaces.com/linux/linux-conf-0.1.tar.gz 1.6K ftp://newplaces.com/pub/linux/linux-conf-0.1.tar.gz 1.6K

Comments are welcome.

Erez

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