From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BB8B138AE9 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:24:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A10FE0D8F; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 101B5E0C04 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3655B21B35 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:24:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from web2 ([10.202.2.212]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:24:53 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=Itj3lziKlZp3NMhlX2ussifFm9CcZ iru4If2y0jbvUM=; b=LZecng/aHWOXWZxMCMHeXI27M7Ph+iRqmX1st/Gaclawu h6ELXj+l9A+Zd0Fuh//NehpsFRvRJ6B58D5XeXh9EpLDLgV1AfOGFFox3dTfKP1E 2DmAM77ZiKA8LM0frTJG7GQDEyLCJ/0SG+XHU92VurabsE0A2WgQ+LTMUxK88shW sH1RhyC8IWIqZATZkltSObwueK6ti/Q1ssTeH8WiVC0TsUJ/2VLqLqSjwmGxsije 8R/JdZaSuMJImJnnZwfjfyTmMQ9XhwnQySbXO8Nqa7Pm8K6AL3CWGA2jxGoG48kh ENtpF6c2tvN7oprZhkzyFkMdFLrM/x0E5Ejr5PPMQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=Itj3lz iKlZp3NMhlX2ussifFm9CcZiru4If2y0jbvUM=; b=b7+l/EOClm1dTuGBHW2pGo 2i8+JXOtsMwOPViqwdu1WKWFw5zSqsl29amwbNXWF21tvvz5gxxay+9n/Sn9pOM+ a5L/4+tWtg0PYCX/zDnIklQN7fyNcS8M2Yy1Ip10nIy98AoVnV4cqcWAZ4/QAn9q xalPp/Yy+QSF2onzuj5MOhSfhZroTXNdcA+1chnjXUrEoZOAQBN0UAYPldt7hhLY sz7RAbvZ+eSKmf88hvyTAp8gBnKzI+lBTqgdJTNrXTo/a7xtIp6pIO60qKadJ4AP CyPbOe4rD1XFbAXn6LCZvif7W84En3/XEvNvtqL2qeNV82whnhrETIQwpRY+86zA == X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 1038962B9E; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:24:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1514492692.1830952.1218177816.0A5D3FAB@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Francesco Turco To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-bb99f02b 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 References: <20171228195236.GA17094@ACM> In-Reply-To: <20171228195236.GA17094@ACM> X-Archives-Salt: 3917660b-2794-4d0f-8bb4-cca8d377e095 X-Archives-Hash: d8da6ddbb341462daae1cced8a8ba488 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 ?