From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MBskW-00033K-Dn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:51:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6828F1C0D9; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9411C0D9 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so1133883fge.14 for ; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:51:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=rD0f/fiCcFa4e5RKfaSNezEMMHeRSgcpF2/BWSX4G+s=; b=wR3wHwrrq5C2s7/ACoGBH+B5/5ZQ5NNMSM1vy2BkteQq/N5YAsB1b5f37jcXWjGLM/ vzOFd9iL5ORM4et+b21Oa4mcg1lOq69+R6/cviczOwSp8XZF/lvFJAWXgANcO9MwWPbd AU96jnz52W/zDSpKYRso/WhNYLhfZEksv7Lto= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=OsXmN0a6oOaeErXcHOx+2YkG+qbziym5975fekzj6PEevW3d7HZEd1dTZx1CEWbTKl FTsjfW0qA2ZG2sP848I4Y4+Y3RMpPC+/4ly0jU2XK2WRY3Hx1ErxqUk5xRQE9+irJRxt QhDjrM7BtJ+UifbpF2Gu7/ya5i/4SODNslqVA= Received: by 10.86.96.12 with SMTP id t12mr1299197fgb.77.1244044290550; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm883769fga.5.2009.06.03.08.51.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:51:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable? Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:50:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <04f801c9e462$1d0c19b0$6400a8c0@quan> In-Reply-To: <04f801c9e462$1d0c19b0$6400a8c0@quan> 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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906031750.01606.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 51ce3893-d0df-48fb-8e26-b2d072914eee X-Archives-Hash: 94bbc69afade37dc3de5a59defb39f5e On Wednesday 03 June 2009 17:43:56 James Homuth wrote: > I noticed yesterday gentoo-sources-2.6.29 was released, and was wondering > if it's required that the kernel be upgraded no > (I'm currently running 2.6.28. nothing wrong with that > I did download the sources (Should I have done that?), yes, it doesn't hurt. Not required, but good to have > but in the event > it's not mandatory or anything to upgrade the kernel I'd really like to not > have to recompile the thing. so don't. You only *have* to upgrade the kernel if you want some feature the current one in use does not support > Related, however, if I do recompile it and > decide to do so with genkernel, Yuck. I tell people to stay away from that thing. Just learn how to do it yourself. It's not hard, you get only what you want, and there are thousands of howtos all over the net > will it respect the settings I've compiled > into 2.6.28 or will they need to be reset again before 2.6.29 is compiled? No. Not unless you give it the old config to use. IIRC it has some feature to use the config for the currently running kernel (/proc/config.gz) if the running kernel supports it. But I could be may off course here too. > thanks for any information on the subject. You'll get MUCH better answers by reading the kernel compile guide in the docs section of gentoo.org. Your post implies that you have not read it, as all your questions are answered in it. Knowledgeable folks here will give you the same answers, so just read the doc instead... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com