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 1S13Ni-0001Mf-CI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:12:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 001CCE0BCE; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F61E0B7C for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dady25 with SMTP id y25so3546998dad.40 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:22 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ny6p01@gmail.com designates 10.68.73.103 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.73.103; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of ny6p01@gmail.com designates 10.68.73.103 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=ny6p01@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=ny6p01@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.68.73.103]) by 10.68.73.103 with SMTP id k7mr12475726pbv.132.1330121482155 (num_hops = 1); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=r2LZsBVh3XqXpKcISb8qkSl1ToxuFCr/oi8DLf56H3E=; b=TsumCHbAb0nelA8DKic7z/YXZzeXXfdNtHIqmWG8oXsDMueoa2Ca2V4vQ/XLYbJRSg G2hs1h995gu1Zm4y3TasvSgcC492YSQegR9xZR3OhZarw4wGgsXOTZHiUWG4+Vr1tE0v w6I/P7vuWL8cLliBDhSTNPU7Akc7Wm2CagmTM= Received: by 10.68.73.103 with SMTP id k7mr10310310pbv.132.1330121482007; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from badass.gateway.2wire.net (adsl-69-108-26-75.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net. [69.108.26.75]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p8sm5394442pbs.51.2012.02.24.14.11.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800 From: ny6p01@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness Message-ID: <20120224221124.GB27406@badass.gateway.2wire.net> References: <4F45F490.2020504@waagmeester.co.za> <201202230826.00642.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4F45FE1F.9070006@waagmeester.co.za> <20120223091734.2aa3d6d0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <4F461983.8080100@waagmeester.co.za> <20120223130822.1a260044@khamul.example.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120223130822.1a260044@khamul.example.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: e8ec909c-e0bb-425a-a77f-589615be4e63 X-Archives-Hash: 79576a62b571333d69dcff6c6f872b1b On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:08:22PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:35 +0200 > Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > > On 02/23/2012 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > > > > >> The only thing I can currently think of is maybe the kernel config > > >> files in /boot? > > > > > > I'd say it's more likely to be getting it from /proc/config.gz. > > > > > > But why start with a clean config each time? That means you have > > > plenty of opportunities to produce a broken kernel on every update. > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to import old config files with newer kernel sources? > > I tried it once by simply copying .config into the newer src dir, but > > I read somewhere that there could be incompatibilities. > > > > That is exactly how you do it. Copy a .config over and run make > oldconfig > > Yes, there could be incompatibilities. This might happen once every few > years when you do an upgrade over 10 version numbers. But that can be > fixed. > > Not doing it this way means a very high likelyhood of the machine not > booting with every single upgrade, plus the huge amount of work it > takes to go through everything in menuconfig. > > The choices are simple, > > - low risk of occasional breakage > - high risk of frequent breakage > > > > -- > Alan McKinnnon > alan.mckinnon@gmail.com > > Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From what I've read of the docs, make oldconfig is the dangerous part that should be avoided between substantial kernel updates. Terry