From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-82893-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1KQd84-000423-5L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:08:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CD66E06A2; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:08:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D217E06A2 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:08:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so2368036mue.6 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:08:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=G8+Np8AgyNKt4lvkYC3ljVD66LlV95VzOACZmeFYAns=; b=j1M3eWa9cL8fIDw173/pvCLB9V16MYiH2pRvd5WgYTCsvMQQPYXjUHepyO0GIcAOLF TOCKLfDF9MGb/6hPkgoTWfO/c/dHCrp7XDZXkVFya7scl3kpFKaH6c2n75aEB+x/+uVe AqNlcWL5w9kN/W7+rK2mPVvhC4e57jxF5vxxs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Th/QMkCZZulijsB4C3K7yaFFtts8WFz4zfNUcJV2yb8VXadOngKD7bfyyywDQcB8Pf 0tQ2DudxTEkqXVaLUQBZGTueBJyT7m8PcVeSmHJNsHbdi5HgqSRP5pz9nK/7aE9WcFq9 agTz2eXS0BQmDO6oVk9Csk65Wj+3fn7no8bpo= Received: by 10.103.226.20 with SMTP id d20mr1230025mur.10.1218006493719; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.229.7 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6142e6140808060008v4db40059h88cbf921dc681dcc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:08:13 +0200 From: "Daniel Pielmeier" <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig In-Reply-To: <loom.20080806T014026-281@post.gmane.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <loom.20080804T210307-572@post.gmane.org> <6142e6140808050439q715ac701u9941cae2bf717bb5@mail.gmail.com> <4898A89A.9050903@bellsouth.net> <48987654.1070501@gmail.com> <4898BE23.5@bellsouth.net> <loom.20080806T014026-281@post.gmane.org> X-Archives-Salt: 28b4905d-a489-4ac8-9ff3-1bba639536f6 X-Archives-Hash: cd8fea94103a9990a2ff2ad72faee053 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