Re: bugreporting script - second try

From: Matthias Juchem (matthias@gandalf.math.uni-mannheim.de)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 09:27:06 EST


On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:

> I have a suggestion, there is a kernel patch to add a config.gz entry in
> the /proc fs. It reflects the configuration used in building the running
> kernel, which may differ from the one you have in /usr/src/linux. It's
> part of the suse distribution. The attached patch will use it, although
> you may want to add code to ask the user which one to use.

I have added your suggestion. If gzip and /proc/config.gz exist, the
latter is used.
I think /proc/config.gz is always the one. (There are many places where
the script assumes that you are running the kernel which caused the
problem.)

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