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Re: [SLE] How to tell what a kernel contains
  • From: pthomas@xxxxxxx (Philipp Thomas)
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 01:45:23 +0100
  • Message-id: <20000105014522.A6393@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



* C Hennessy (CP.Hennessy@xxxxxxxxx) [20000104 00:37]:

> know what options were used to compile a kernel ( i.e. the kind
> of options you make when you do a "make xconfig"), only from the
> resulting binary ?

There is no way to get that info easily. This has been discussed a few times
on linux-kernel but never led to results that went into the kernel. If I do
remember correctly there was even a patch posted that would make that info
available as a pseudo file under /proc.


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Philipp Thomas <pthomas@xxxxxxx>

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