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 1N12l3-0000fq-OC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:51:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4252CE068E; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0306AE068E for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so9010025fxm.34 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:51:31 -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:message-id; bh=3goV8BA22+IZ9tEdLPF2P5yoxGvDv7eGyj75XN8kNbY=; b=qN7D3sMNkZFPHjOVbHfle31ujY270biqEcecLiN78k9/LlYSGr1aW5sA1WqqBnjv2z htSV/mF68uQ0fxXWwIi6X6dCJzGUOP5SNHdY/7FjORge0gpakUBXh5CRmYo1yVb9bDJs 9NdhGa+PTn2gHsdMUQzn5ipWIYhEwvikbAPlY= 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:message-id; b=p7qfxuU123Y8t59zPw/+Fy+UNzvXPJW1QsSpsKug92vfByCkC5W9xEgL5rQe1CGsMe 3mrqGRsM4f+pQCs/x+ED72PWynf10dQ5chQXKH09eZ38NwZAWqaaec+8AUdzJjYJjG2C 8dzvt+lQmO+vou3odYrfAImOiM/j3poal7frw= Received: by 10.103.126.3 with SMTP id d3mr4297403mun.101.1256237491415; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:51:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-101-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.101]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e10sm880727muf.21.2009.10.22.11.51.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:51:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:50:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20091022151841.3bf51afd@majikthise> In-Reply-To: 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-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910222050.19932.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 676de489-9b37-407b-87db-360f8310139d X-Archives-Hash: 150fc2f1a562b7f6d8b69a6cbd4f6222 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com