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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:40:26 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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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>
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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
:-) :-)