Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:23:53 +0800 From: LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> To: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: Reverting to 6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <45FE9CF9.70100@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <20070319142604.GA21454@FreeBSD.czest.pl> References: <E1HTGt3-000F0K-9m@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <45FE8EF3.7030400@delphij.net> <028501c76a2b$3c496750$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20070319142604.GA21454@FreeBSD.czest.pl>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF82C517DE9B0FC693362F0BF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:33:44PM -0000, Steven Hartland wrote: >> I think this is a very good idea, I've been caught at least once >> not being able to recreate a working kernel due to the loss of >> the original config file. >> >> Steve >> >> ----- Original Message -----=20 >> From: "LI Xin" <delphij@delphij.net> >> >> I always use options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE for my kernel :-) Maybe we >> should add it to DEFAULTS some day... >=20 > I did some work in this area, as several system administrators I've met= > also seem to have problem with kernel configuration recovery. In my cas= e > I came with a method of obtaining a configuration of a running kernel > via sysctl (kern.conftxt for now) and via config(8) form the kernel fil= e. >=20 > Hopefully this work will get more review soon. Not sure how useful could it be to expose it via sysctl(8) interface but sounds interesting to me. Have you posted the patch somewhere? Cheers, --=20 Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! --------------enigF82C517DE9B0FC693362F0BF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/pz5OfuToMruuMARCilMAJ9OKloxb2O9yShxyMbCNNhhVRfhFACdEPkM 5hrmMKHtqnEz7E12NdCiljo= =R4KI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF82C517DE9B0FC693362F0BF--
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