is there more in the "kernel-devel" package than necessary?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

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>   but are all those Kconfig files strictly necessary?  the
> kernel-devel package represents a tree that has already been
> configured, the .config file is there, etc.  and it's not as if you're
> going to reconfigure that tree, is it?
>
>   so is there an actual requirement for those Kconfig files?  i'm just
> curious.

just FYI, i chmod'ed all those Kconfig* files to 000, then built a
module as a non-root user, and it seemed to work just fine.  so,
effectively, i'm guessing that those files are not a requirement for a
module build.

rday
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