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From: "Daniel Pielmeier" <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig
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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.