[Module] X8Kconfig - Extract kernel config from running kernel | v001 | 02-05-11

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This module is not for end-users. It's only valuable for kernel developers.

Intro
I wrote this module for the purpose of extracting kernel config from our running kernel 2.6.29 in my X8 (an educational purpose).

Instruction
Everyone who wants to try:

• Download the module below (only for X8 with latest kernel + baseband 015)
• Extract
• Push to /system/lib/modules
• From adb shell
  

  insmod /system/lib/modules/x8kconfig.ko
  gunzip -c /proc/config.gz > /mnt/sdcard/x8config.txt

• Mount USB, open x8config.txt from your sdcard with wordpad
• You will see these in some first line:
  

  #
  # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
  # Linux kernel version: 2.6.29
  # Tue Jan 18 23:38:24 2011
  #

Source was pushed to github: https://github.com/doixanh/X8Features

Licence violation will be discussed later

SE is treating it's end users like s*it as we all can see....

This will pass,only we need to spread the news.

News:Sony is hiding latest open source kernel,does sony afraid or newest source can unlock bootloader.
Because of user rights when qouastion will asked we can only guess whay they will say nothing or they can go to jail.

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Why don't you take the boot.img from the latest se rom and extract it so you can get the origenal kernel ..
then build a costom one debending on it

That's insane... I've just forwarded it to Polish android board, everyone should know this.

me using your module I obtain it:
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
# Linux kernel version: 2.6.29
# Sun Jan 30 20:24:17 2011
#

hmm, why cant we use the older kernel to unlock the bootloader?
just asking.

doixanh, are you going to contact http://gpl-violations.org/ those guys?

does the kernel tree compile with the config extracted from the device?

I think the different build dates are not really a good proof that the published archive is not the real one because they probably did multiple builds with different configs. I know that when I tried compiling kconfig support into the previous kernel/baseband it turned out to be useless and had a bunch of undefined config flags compared to the published kernel tree.

Because the configuration is newer you assume changes to source? That's pretty far fetched... Releasing updates on this big scale you don't do last minute changes to code... Gpl said release changes to code. What code is missing / changed?

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