Re: Knowing what options a kernel was compiled with

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:06:57 +1100

On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:21:41 -0700,
Jacob Anawalt <anawaltaj@qwest.net> wrote:
>Is there a way to know what options a running kernel was compiled with,
>if you dont have access to the source or configure files it was compiled
>off of?

No. You have to insist that whoever distributes the kernel binary also
distributes the .config file that it was compiled with.

Don't bother arguing that the kernel should record this info, it has
been discussed before and rejected. This is a problem for the
distributors, not for the kernel.

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