Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (sort of) strange things after upgrading the kernel

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Sunday 14 October 2012 15:46:43 Dale wrote:
> Francisco Ares wrote:
> > As my old kernel is from the 2.6 series and the new is from the
> > 3.4, I decided to do a "menuconfig" from scratch. I do use "lspci"
> > and also I always build the kernel allowing "/proc/config.gz", so
> > it is easy to get exactly what is working, although I keep my own
> > bacup copies of ".config", for future references. When I am
> > building a kernel, I use to open the latest ".config" in a
> > separate console, for reference. That has kept me of forgetting
> > plenty of details.
> > 
> I can understand why.  There would have been a huge number of new
> options to check on.  Doing it from scratch with menuconfig could
> have been just as fast or maybe even faster.  May have been worth
> trying but may have ended up with more issues.

I found long ago that menuconfig flags new options with [NEW] to the right 
of the option name, so it's easy to find out what's changed since you 
last ran a config operation. That can easily reduce a several-hours config 
job to no more than half an hour. Still quite a task, but not in the 
same league as configuring from scratch.

-- 
Rgds
Peter