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 1S0WG4-0007vL-3r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:50:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C625DE0C58; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.bushveldgrain.co.za (mail.bushveldgrain.co.za [196.25.181.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F38BEE0C43 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail.bushveldgrain.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bushveldgrain.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302DB6608C for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:37 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com Received: from mail.bushveldgrain.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.bushveldgrain.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LdLF+AjjU9mc for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:36 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [196.1.1.163] (unknown [196.1.1.163]) by mail.bushveldgrain.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FD766087 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:36 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <4F461983.8080100@waagmeester.co.za> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:35 +0200 From: Coert Waagmeester User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120118 Thunderbird/9.0 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] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness References: <4F45F490.2020504@waagmeester.co.za> <201202230826.00642.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4F45FE1F.9070006@waagmeester.co.za> <20120223091734.2aa3d6d0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120223091734.2aa3d6d0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fe525e23-ab12-42f6-a848-1d3c58013983 X-Archives-Hash: 804655a58f6e05825b2cbf7002879bfa On 02/23/2012 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > >> The only thing I can currently think of is maybe the kernel config >> files in /boot? > > I'd say it's more likely to be getting it from /proc/config.gz. > > But why start with a clean config each time? That means you have plenty > of opportunities to produce a broken kernel on every update. > > Is there a way to import old config files with newer kernel sources? I tried it once by simply copying .config into the newer src dir, but I read somewhere that there could be incompatibilities.