From: Francesco Turco <fturco@fastmail.fm>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:24:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1514492692.1830952.1218177816.0A5D3FAB@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171228195236.GA17094@ACM>
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017, at 20:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> There is some way of initialising a new kernel .config from an existing
> one, I am sure, but I can't find it. I've looked at the Gentoo wiki,
> I've looked at (some of) the kernel's own documentation. The nearest I
> can find is make oldconfig, which supposedly does what I want, but it
> just seems to start off with a default .config and go through the
> hundreds of questions one at a time.
What about: make olddefconfig
?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-28 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-28 19:52 [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config Alan Mackenzie
2017-12-28 20:05 ` Jack
2017-12-28 20:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-12-28 20:16 ` Rich Freeman
2017-12-28 20:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-29 0:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2017-12-29 1:24 ` Paige Thompson
2017-12-28 20:24 ` Francesco Turco [this message]
2017-12-28 20:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Ralph Seichter
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