[PLUG] checking kernel config

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Jan 7 18:40:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Carla Schroder wrote:

>  time for today's Tricky Question:

>  how do you check for specific features supported in the kernel?

You can't, at least not in any cool scriptable way. It's been a
consistent request: a way to poll a running kernel for its config
values. There was some rumbling about getting that sort of thing in
2.6, but afaik you're out of luck in kernels <= 2.4.x

-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>




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