Re: kernel image question
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:09:45PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
>
> Would you mind explaining the purpose of config/default in debian's i386
> kernel image packages? The config ends up in /usr/src/kernel-headers-
It was useful when glibc used the generic kernel-headers package.
In order for that to work, the kernel-headers package must contain
an autoconf.h which depends on having a .config file. The .config
file is usually just the default config file for that architecture.
I didn't use the kernel's default directly since it tends to get
out-of-sync with what's actually in the kernel.
These days it isn't that useful anymore since glibc doesn't use
kernel-headers at all.
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