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 1NpMsm-0003x2-O2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:27:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 203C2E0A41; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blingymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F41E0A41 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.110] (smtp.media-brokers.com [70.43.81.99]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blingymail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794F55C819 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:27:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B97AC47.5030806@libertytrek.org> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:27:19 -0500 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 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] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31 References: <20100310013650.GA6034@waltdnes.org> <4B979D21.4040206@libertytrek.org> <20100310134719.7fe66c8b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4B97A508.8070204@libertytrek.org> <20100310140922.77fc4045@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100310140922.77fc4045@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 49904887-d7dd-4817-96eb-8f3cec4de11c X-Archives-Hash: b1cc1b151afa8328e451d0081c93d883 On 2010-03-10 9:09 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Whatever the guide says, the third part of the kernel version is > considered the minor revision, anything after that is a patch level. Gotcha - and I guess I was using those terms in my own way - the guide didn't use the word major or minor - I just added that to distinguish between the two cases... > I see what you mean about the guide and consider it wrong, especially > for an advanced section. You are more likely to run into problems > when not reusing your old config that when using make oldconfig. But... my understanding is that, by copying your old .config to the new kernel dir before running make menuconfig, you *are* reusing your old config... I sure hope I'm not reading *that* wrong. ;) > Even the comment about context isn't really true, as oldconfig shows > some context and the same help that menuconfig does. Ok... well, this is how I've always done it, and I'm comfortable with it, so don't see a reason to change. Maybe I'll try running make oldconfig one day just to see how it differs... Anyway, thanks for the info. Lastly - since the guide *is* a part of the formal/official gentoo docs, maybe one of you who understands the kernel update process should file a bug to update it with better information? -- Charles