How to recover the first .config file

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 13, patrick Kapturkiewicz managed to emit:
> Hi,
> I wish to modify some parameters like shmmax directly
> in /usr/src/linux/include without remaking entirely
> the original kernel.
> Is there a way to recover the first .config file
> (installation's one which doesn't exist in
> /usr/src/linux) and how could i do that ?

Perhaps $SRC/.config.old? Otherwise, some distributions put
a defconfig-mumble-mumble somewhere in the /usr/src/linux tree.
Failing that, look for a config file in /boot. It might not be
there, but distributions often do that, too.

Kurt
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