From: Matt Gibson <gothick@codewave.demon.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.23-pre1] /proc/ikconfig support
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:06:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308270006.47645.gothick@gothick.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030826223328.GC27422@merlin.emma.line.org>
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 23:33, Matthias Andree wrote:
>
> Precedent: admin at a site changes, original .config was snatched from
> some other machine, and kernel sources have been removed from $NOTEBOOK
> because space was tight... In such cases, a config store is pretty
> handy. Extract, make oldconfig, there you go.
Or, as happened with me on SuSE kernels (which had/have a similar arrangement
patched in) -- your distro ships with a precompiled kernel, you download a
new one from kernel.org, and you can configure it very quickly to match what
you've already got. Far quicker than starting from scratch.
M
--
"It's the small gaps between the rain that count,
and learning how to live amongst them."
-- Jeff Noon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-27 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-26 19:33 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-08-26 20:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-08-26 20:23 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-08-26 22:33 ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-26 23:06 ` Matt Gibson [this message]
2003-08-27 21:03 ` Herbert Pötzl
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