Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 22 October 2009 20:17:46 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> > Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig?
> 
> 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. 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 version jumps like 2.4 to 2.6

The 2.6 development model is small incremental steps, so the odds are always 
in your favour that it will work just fine. Occasionally you might find two 
versions that don't like to play nicely with oldconfig but that isn't the 
norm.

FWIW, I haven't encountered a single problem with the entire 2.6 range. But 
then again I don't do version jumps on the order of 2.6.9 to 2.6.15, it's more 
like 2.6.30-r6 to 2.6.31

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