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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?
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Jeremy McSpadden wrote:
> Better to run make oldconfig. It merges the changes.
>
> --
> Jeremy McSpadden
> deface@uberpenguin.net
>
>    

Yep.  I always run make oldconfig then just run make && make 
modules_install.  Once oldconfig is done, the kernel should be 
configured and ready to build.

Dale

:-)  :-)