On February 13, 2002 10:51 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > The advantage, of course is that if you are executing the kernel,
> > it can give you all the information necessary to recreate a
> > new one from the sources because its .config is embeded into
> > itself. Once you have the ".config" file, you just do `make oldconfig`
> > and you are home free.
>
> But it does no such thing! You not only need the config file, you need the
> source.
The source is readily available, the specific config used for your kernel may
not be.
> This feature just isn't all that useful,
Given your little logic slip above I'm not sure I should trust your conclusion.
OK, I'm out of here, I'm not interested in discussing why any more, only how.
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