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 1N12Q0-0006HV-60 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:29:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CDFEE0835; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C2BE0835 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from majikthise (majikthise.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1595E3FAF17 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:29:46 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:29:37 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff Message-ID: <20091022192937.3dbbf8d7@majikthise> In-Reply-To: References: <4ADF5BE6.2070506@gentoo.org> <20091022151841.3bf51afd@majikthise> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs8 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/ZPBK+gWRNpFE2bqGbSjHq=."; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 22f6c458-b8d7-4b36-a9a8-c3ff1706d85e X-Archives-Hash: 73720d5518e8189eaccc35dbd73a5e22 --Sig_/ZPBK+gWRNpFE2bqGbSjHq=. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:17:46 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? =20 >=20 > I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the > versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions > is unsafe. 0.0.01 is hardly a big leap! You wouldn't want to use oldconfig in a big jump, say from 2.4 to 2.6, but for incremental versions it is the best approach. There is far more chance of you messing things up in a new, from scratch config than using oldconfig. > Not to mention the great whack of new options. If you do a > diff -y between the two configs there are lots of gaps. That's precisely what oldconfig deals with. --=20 Neil Bothwick Custer was fitted for an Arrow shirt. --Sig_/ZPBK+gWRNpFE2bqGbSjHq=. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrgpJcACgkQum4al0N1GQPhOwCgoSf1jjnC7JOu3DPhcsK58fLi /h0An2xB6aFkDRGKSRlCVk0sUPIVCv9V =Liy6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ZPBK+gWRNpFE2bqGbSjHq=.--