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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:08:13 +0200
From: "Daniel Pielmeier" <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig
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2008/8/6, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>:
> So what I gleen is that you run on
> a kernel, say version linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r8
>
> You down load newer sources, say version
> linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7
>
> cd /usr/src
>
> rm linux
>
> ln -sf /usr/src/linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 linux
>
> make oldconfig  <???>
> make menuconfig
>
> cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.25-gentoo-r7
> cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.25-gentoo-r7
> cp .config /boot/config-2.6.25-gentoo-r7
>
>
> edit grub apppropriately
> and reboot to the new kernel?

In the case you run menuconfig oldconfig is not needed. I did so
myself in the past. Now i simply run just oldconfig, because you have
a better control of what has changed between the versions. After
oldconfig menuconfig is not needed one of them will suffer.

Regards,

Daniel