From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig necessary?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 22:41:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201108012241.28796.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801175818.031c7bd1@karnak.local>
On Monday 01 August 2011 17:58:18 David W Noon wrote:
> The make menuconfig will silently do a make oldconfig on the
> existing .config file before it puts the menu on the screen. This
> means that the options in the menu hierarchy will reflect the options
> that were in your old .config file, with newer features [i.e. not in the
> earlier kernel] set to defaults.
...and flagged with "(NEW)" so you can see them.
--
Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-01 2:06 [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary? Pandu Poluan
2011-08-01 2:23 ` Jeremy McSpadden
2011-08-01 2:42 ` Dale
2011-08-01 11:52 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-08-01 2:44 ` Mark Knecht
2011-08-01 4:16 ` Bill Longman
2011-08-01 11:56 ` David W Noon
2011-08-01 14:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-08-01 14:13 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-01 14:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-08-01 16:58 ` David W Noon
2011-08-01 21:41 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-08-01 16:00 ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2011-08-01 20:26 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-08-01 20:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
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