[ale] kernel .config reverse engineering

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Tue May 6 20:27:05 EDT 2014


On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 19:42 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Some distros (should?) have a config.gz somewhere under /proc for the
> running kernel, I thought...enabling that in the kernel configuration
> is something I habitually do in Gentoo.

Not present in Fedora.  Interesting idea, though.

> On 5/6/14, 11:56 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 10:50 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > > Is out there tool that can create .config file from given kernel
> > > executable. 
> > Why?  Don't most distros include the .config of the build in the
> > kernel-devel package and in the /boot directory.  Are you trying to
> > reverse engineer a hand built custom kernel?
> > 
> > And to answer your question - I don't know of one but that doesn't mean
> > one can't exists.

Regards,
Mike
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