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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:25 pm    Post subject: is there a way to create a .config file from existing kernel Reply with quote

I accidentally deleted the .conifg file from /usr/src/linux uisng rm. Ah well, my bad.
any way to recreate .config from exisiting bzImage or running kernel in /boot?
can't remeber all the settings and trying not to reinvent MY wheel.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check in the /proc directory if you have a file named config.gz . It is the configuration file of the running kernel compressed with Gzip.

Some options, CONFIG_IKCONFIG and CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC , need to be activated in the running kernel to be able to retreive the file. You can use a script in the Linux kernel source tree, to recreate a kernel configuration from it's image when the CONFIG_IKCONFIG option have been activated:
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CONFIG_IKCONFIG:

This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides
of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an on-disk kernel.
This information can be extracted from the kernel
image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
/proc/config.gz if enabled (below).

Symbol: IKCONFIG [=y]
Type  : tristate
Prompt: Kernel .config support
   Defined at init/Kconfig:681
         Location:
         -> General setup

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

if you enabled
Code:
<*> Kernel .config support
[*]   Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz
/proc/config.gz will exist and can be used as you wish by
Code:
zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If all else fails, you can run `make localyesconfig` in the kernel tree and it'll reselect all your currently in-use drivers.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you! I will give the suggestions a try and get back!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
Check in the /proc directory if you have a file named config.gz


Not there. Then tried
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'make localyesconfig'
and got:

Code:

linux # make localyesconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
  SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2503:0:
scripts/kconfig/menu.c: In function 'get_symbol_str':
scripts/kconfig/menu.c:561:18: warning: 'jump' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
scripts/kconfig/menu.c:515:19: note: 'jump' was declared here
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
No config file found at scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl line 123.
make[1]: *** [localyesconfig] Error 2
make: *** [localyesconfig] Error 2


Darn! serves me right. :(

anything else?

I hate to reinvent the wheel, but it looks like I'll have to do a better job of keeping my exsting wheels round...
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You might need to run a normal make defconfig first.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.kernel-seeds.org/
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

While I hate it to pieces, looks like I'll have to run 'make defconfig' and move on.

Thank you all for the suggestions. I guess one of the things I WILL add is


Quote:

<*> Kernel .config support
[*] Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nimar,

Do you have any old kernel .config files you can use for a starting point ?
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