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 1MBxGG-0004We-Dk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:40:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6823E0537; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.241]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F3EE0537 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 20:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so87194rvb.46 for ; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:40:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=C3LXRzq+KWqOjaNrLBLKRO7oVAdsLjshSDVMK7VmJSI=; b=QokQm9twQR+2ZjpXiiduFPIbPJeCHVXwPrxQ8lqH7+QWSW3VpMbk83WV9SPwUUES3i K+WpvP5wGZUdjjTUgakWFHfM4Ax29fBIudVbPrU9I156Es1HsHJEGs745mdPFhZMuOl8 wln00fMM4tyh755G5skfQXEQ8x5Up5XbF/SDI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=P/aPv/4y1IeWqo5XEA2NYRryCwnrtMKqblPRhwraFD8KdA/9xZswuS+cv/axKx1UAz DicFg7kgJJfs3qPV7zhpSdrFuiH9DjOnLHjI5GeWoSQaVbfVequpPdcXDeFjsGkgxAQf 8bkg+sIIbpTHwiuNrWrCQTamhhcyPWISWyKWQ= Received: by 10.141.71.14 with SMTP id y14mr819304rvk.197.1244061633811; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.58? (r164h58.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.58]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f42sm24871894rvb.31.2009.06.03.13.40.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A26DFBA.9090100@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:40:26 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable? References: <04f801c9e462$1d0c19b0$6400a8c0@quan> <200906031750.01606.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4A26A75C.3050001@gmail.com> <200906032114.04014.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906032114.04014.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e2d5eca1-2534-4063-83ab-def376033df0 X-Archives-Hash: 183fdfc9becc777adb076a824a7346f2 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: > >> Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make >> oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. >> > > That's the correct way :-) > > But the OP asked if there was some magic way to get genkernel to use the same > config as #SOME_OTHER_KERNEL. > > Which of course makes no sense as there can be multiple versions and configs > present. > > The small remaining part of me that is still mostly unaffected by the onset of > senility seems to remember genkernel being able to do something expressed as: > > zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config > genkernel [....] > > Which I suppose is a reasonable thing for an app like genkernel to do. > But I could also just be imagining it. It happens :-) > > > True, I did go a little off base. I did try genkernel once a long time ago. It included things for hardware I didn't have then omitted the driver for my IDE chipset, did include that slow as crap generic tho. Anyway, to me, genkernel is a waste of time. This is Gentoo, we want only what we need and not one bit more. Dale :-) :-)