Bug 142117 - Add support for 'make cloneconfig'
Summary: Add support for 'make cloneconfig'
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-07 14:20 UTC by Timur Tabi
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-12-08 04:41:01 UTC
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Description Timur Tabi 2004-12-07 14:20:12 UTC
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Description of problem:
The SUSE distributions have an additional make target called 'cloneconfig'.  This target creates a .config file that matches the currently running kernel.  All it does is copy /proc/config.gz to .config and then configure the kernel.  However, the real value of this is that all SUSE version ship with /proc/config.gz turned on by default.  This makes it trivial to rebuild the kernel with the same options as it was installed.

At our company, we have a driver that works with several different 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, and our number one problem is getting our customers to have a properly configured kernel so that they can build our driver.  Customers who have SUSE Linux are much easier to work with than users of other distros, mainly because of 'cloneconfig'.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Dave Jones 2004-12-08 04:41:01 UTC
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
make oldconfig

The /proc stuff is not going to be enabled, as it serves no purpose other than
to waste memory for 99% of users.


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