Re: How to check the kernel compile options ?

[Arjan van de Ven]

> > What he is saying is that you can't do that, generically. Some options are
> > available at runtime through /proc, but most are not. You need to check what
> > happend back at compile time.
> 
> Right, there is a religious issue here: some core kernel hackers believe
> that it is wrong to encode kernel configuration in the kernel, and that
> is why it's not available.  Technically it is not difficult, nor is it
> difficult to make it memory-efficient.

It's silly to put it permanently in unswappable memory; putting it in 
/lib/modules/`uname -r/
somewhere does make tons of sense instead.