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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "make oldconfig" 2.6.30-8 ==> 2.6.31
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> No you're not. But it is far easier to miss important changes without
> oldconfig to point them out to you by shoving them in your face.

That's how I use it. I do oldconfig as a kind of "kernel config diff"
and then follow it by menuconfig and a quick browsing of the critical
settings to make sure they look sane enough to boot. As long as it
boots and supports my disks and filesystems I can sort out any minor
settings/module changes after that.