Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:27:02 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Alan Amesbury <amesbury@umn.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE workaround? Message-ID: <20060314112701.GF17026@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <44159088.9000505@umn.edu> References: <440DFEC5.3070501@umn.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.62.0603101503140.24710@neumann.snl.salk.edu> <44159088.9000505@umn.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:32:24AM -0600, Alan Amesbury wrote: > Jorge Aldana wrote: > > >I'm on 6.1PreRelease and this works: > > > >strings -n 3 /boot/kernel/kernel | grep -v ____ | sed -n 's/^___//p' > > > >There was a minor tweek in this line back in 5.X transition form 4.X but > >my script works fine for 6.X since then. > > Note that the problem isn't in the line you provided above that extracts > the built-in configuration file. It's in the build procedure that's > supposed to put the config file into the kernel in the first place. In > other words, "options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE" doesn't include *all* the > configuration data, because it doesn't include included configuration > files. It's only including the very first level of nested configuration > files, which is not an accurate representation of what's in the kernel. > > In my example, the configuration file for GENERIC should've been in > there somewhere, as well as anything included by GENERIC (such as the > stuff in DEFAULTS). > > Again, this used to work great, but appears to have been broken in favor > of... usability? > I posted a patch to config(8) some time ago that did what you want, but it wasn't widely accepted so I abandoned it. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEFqiFqRfpzJluFF4RAtO7AJ0ZtxJFIzTYndKIdrLP9gNx2gJP2ACgnoPB 9qZVXgII3YQ90vw+bSMXPZM= =H/KH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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