Following an email exchange with the Slackware maintainer Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdiat_private> he put the Magic SysRq in all the prebuilt kernels shipped with slackware 4.0. I guess this was a bad idea on my part. I would still like to see Magic SysRq in install disk kernels as it helps to debug installs that die. Also I note from the 2.2.11 changelog that Magic SysRq can be runtime enabled / disabled Thou the kernel src tree from Slackware 4.0 is pristene 2.2.6, so any home make kernels will have the SysRq turned off by default <Snip> > CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is enabled by default in the 2.2.5 kernel which is > shipped with RedHat-6.0: > > viper:/usr/src/linux-2.2.5% grep SYSRQ arch/i386/defconfig .config > arch/i386/defconfig:CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y > .config:CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y > viper:/usr/src/linux-2.2.5% uname -a > Linux some.inet.address 2.2.5-15 #1 Mon Apr 19 22:21:09 EDT 1999 i586 unknown > > In 2.2.5-22 kernel (the last version in updates/) arch/i386/defconfig has > CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ also enabled. > > The most interesting is that standard kernel distribution > (linux-2.2.5.tar.gz) doesn't have SYSRQ enabled -- it was set to "y" by > RedHat (probably during beta-testing), and is "y" for all architectures. > > So, those who use RedHat don't even have to say "Y" and decide if they > are hackers or not -- the decision was made for them beforehand ;-). -- Tim Fletcher .~. /V\ L I N U X tjdf@st-andrews.ac.uk // \ >Don't fear the penguin< tim@night-shade.demon.co.uk /( )\ ^^-^^ Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams
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