From: "Daniel Pielmeier" <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:39:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6142e6140808050439q715ac701u9941cae2bf717bb5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080804T210307-572@post.gmane.org>
2008/8/4, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>:
> Hello,
>
> It seems like I remember that 'make oldconfig' is not
> needed any more, to pass the current (booted) kernel
> option to the .config for building a new kernel.
>
> Of is 'make oldconfig' still a good idea?
>
>
> James
At least in the kernel Makefile there is no hint about /proc/config.gz
which contains the running kernel configuration, so I think make
oldconfig or your favourite kernel configuration tool is still needed.
If there is no .config or .config.old it will load a default
configuration which is probably not what you want.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 21:04 [gentoo-user] make oldconfig James
2008-08-04 17:11 ` Eric Martin
2008-08-04 22:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-05 11:15 ` Eric Martin
2008-08-05 11:39 ` Daniel Pielmeier [this message]
2008-08-05 19:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2008-08-05 15:48 ` Eric Martin
2008-08-05 20:54 ` Dale
2008-08-06 1:58 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2008-08-06 2:34 ` M. Sitorus
2008-08-06 2:38 ` Dale
2008-08-06 7:08 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-08-09 20:35 ` james
2008-08-09 21:50 ` »Q«
2008-08-06 9:28 ` Thanasis
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