From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9C0D5138AE9 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93A30E0CAE; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFDB1E0843 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 44800 invoked by uid 3782); 28 Dec 2017 19:55:40 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (p548C6125.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.97.37]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:55:39 +0100 Received: (qmail 17210 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Dec 2017 19:52:36 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:52:36 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config Message-ID: <20171228195236.GA17094@ACM> 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 User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 551b91ac-530c-410c-ac32-f9e5955645d1 X-Archives-Hash: 0e345b9e5fa8b1d3f5a35adc787a3bdb 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).