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 1NpMd4-0001Rz-KU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:11:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B518E0D37; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:10:07 +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 3E793E0D37 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1BBBC4AE547 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:09:22 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:09:22 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31 Message-ID: <20100310140922.77fc4045@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B97A508.8070204@libertytrek.org> References: <20100310013650.GA6034@waltdnes.org> <4B979D21.4040206@libertytrek.org> <20100310134719.7fe66c8b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4B97A508.8070204@libertytrek.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs32 (GTK+ 2.18.7; x86_64-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_/XQu+=PNRb2vOcDq8zOFPMc0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f39ccc95-6b43-43bb-88ff-0374687f3756 X-Archives-Hash: 234990997aa16ff26d58e6ffc43cd615 --Sig_/XQu+=PNRb2vOcDq8zOFPMc0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:56:24 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > > The .30, .31 is the minor kernel version. You shouldn't use oldconfig > > when going from 2.4 to 2.6 but from 2.6.m to 2.6.n is safe. =20 >=20 > Again, not according to the official upgrade guide - it specifically > uses 2.6.9-r1 to 2.6.9-r2 as an example of a 'minor' update, and going > from 2.6.8 to 2.6.9 as having potentially 'too large of changes for make > oldconfig to be considered safe'. >=20 > If the guide is outdated, maybe it should be updated: Whatever the guide says, the third part of the kernel version is considered the minor revision, anything after that is a patch level. I see what you mean about the guide and consider it wrong, especially for an advanced section. You are more likely to run into problems when not reusing your old config that when using make oldconfig. Even the comment about context isn't really true, as oldconfig shows some context and the same help that menuconfig does. My only complaint about oldconfig is that there is no way to step back or undo a change, short of Ctrl-C and start again. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 43: Genuine imitation --Sig_/XQu+=PNRb2vOcDq8zOFPMc0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuXqBIACgkQum4al0N1GQNuWQCgxEm/Y9mNBCWcoZQ0xQF4prYH NMsAoIs6c/NE9bGwcTWKQ0Rn0XkvieKe =aLv5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/XQu+=PNRb2vOcDq8zOFPMc0--