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 1S14ui-0000yt-Lv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:51:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B7EBE0CED; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DEF9E085D for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:49:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm1 with SMTP id m1so1668916yen.40 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:49:24 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.153.230 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.236.153.230; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rdalek1967@gmail.com designates 10.236.153.230 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rdalek1967@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=rdalek1967@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.236.153.230]) by 10.236.153.230 with SMTP id f66mr8800424yhk.37.1330127364248 (num_hops = 1); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:49:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VZdH/F5R9BdlHVdzOXz7APALo2QCmzHNQZYKNhnPags=; b=KmBR0wQGmckSXR1FufW0BpEKgUqbp/7afRoeFlmYdEEGiedPzgsWMLpnaHKMHK3Ftv CCz2xyOYuvGfs4dgxsdf4zPKEnAWkrKp6CCtcx6E3EW5k14BzksLSR85DnsLTDxjRZh6 CjKRRRRs0k4ngkT5tFX5lTgmWoXo7m7y1tr2A= Received: by 10.236.153.230 with SMTP id f66mr6673512yhk.37.1330127364189; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:49:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-116-97.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.116.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h36sm16308289yhj.6.2012.02.24.15.49.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:49:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F482201.4060703@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:49:21 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120218 Firefox/10.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.7.1 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> <4F461983.8080100@waagmeester.co.za> <20120223130822.1a260044@khamul.example.com> <20120224221124.GB27406@badass.gateway.2wire.net> <20120224230238.03192b47@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120224230238.03192b47@digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 016ee83e-38c8-495f-88b8-044782622265 X-Archives-Hash: 1b14af0ae287e73d15d8a9d733edcfeb Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6p01@gmail.com wrote: > >> Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' make >> menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old config. From >> what I've read of the docs, make oldconfig is the dangerous part that >> should be avoided between substantial kernel updates. > > make oldconfig is not the risk, importing the old config is. oldconfig > tries to convert the old config to suit the new kernel, with a success > rate probably in excess of 99%, despite what has been written about it. > > Using the old .config without make oldconfig is a good way of getting > the worst of both worlds. > > Of all the upgrades I have done, I have only had make oldconfig fail once. When I posted here, I think it was Alan that said it was a major change in the kernel menu that messed it up. That was a few years ago. 99% is likely about right. One failure so far and waiting on the next major change in the menu for failure #2. Now watch it fail the very next time I use it. O_o Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"