[1906] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: RedHat-Athena kernel config?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Foo)
Sun Nov 16 17:35:32 1997
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 17:35:11 -0500
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
From: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199711162229.RAA00448@harlie.mit.edu>
At 05:29 PM 11/16/97 EST, Emil Sit wrote:
>
>> Could someone make available the kernel configuration used to build the
>> Redhat-Athena 4.2 kernels? I'd like to patch my kernel for that ip_fragment
>
>I think the same arguments we have against patching the kernel to
>disable promiscuous mode apply here as well. If RH makes a patched
>kernel available, I'm sure we'll include it but we don't (currently)
>build custom kernels or maintain our own source.
Oh, I'm not asking for a custom config. I'm asking merely for a saved
configuration file from of the build machines, because I am not sure
whether if I install the kernel-src rpm, patch the code, and compile, that
I will necessarily get the same kernel I started with except for the patch.
If that is the case, then I will simply use the configuration as is. I was
wondering whether the bootdisks distributed on small-gods have different
kernels, and therefore kernel configs.
>> someone "official". I'm sending this to linux-dev because I'm running 4.2,
>> which still isn't officially announced yet (right?).
>
>And of course, that means that you're ignoring the hundreds of people
>who use 4.0 or other stuff.
Yes, 4.0 is equally vulnerable -- I haven't seen anything about it on
linux-help or linux-announce though, so I'll leave that to the SIPB
maintainers to say something. I can't say I know the solution to the
problem myself (since I don't know if you can simply install the src rpm,
patch, and compile), so I don't want send something that is possibly
incorrect.
-Edwin
