From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:52:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171228195236.GA17094@ACM> (raw)
Hello, Gentoo.
Having just built linux-4.14.7-gentoo, suddenly a new version of the
kernel, linux-4.14.8-gentoo-r1 has become stable. Configuring a kernel
from scratch is a repetitive drudge.
There is some way of initialising a new kernel .config from an existing
one, I am sure, but I can't find it. I've looked at the Gentoo wiki,
I've looked at (some of) the kernel's own documentation. The nearest I
can find is make oldconfig, which supposedly does what I want, but it
just seems to start off with a default .config and go through the
hundreds of questions one at a time.
So, would some kind soul please tell me how to get my old .config into a
new one properly. Thanks!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2017-12-28 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-28 19:52 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2017-12-28 20:05 ` [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config Jack
2017-12-28 20:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-12-28 20:16 ` Rich Freeman
2017-12-28 20:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-12-29 0:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2017-12-29 1:24 ` Paige Thompson
2017-12-28 20:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Turco
2017-12-28 20:35 ` Ralph Seichter
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