From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig necessary?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:39:29 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGWMqmXvev-TBVAy49ps9i+oP1fRH9_89NMpe6FLBU5-wQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j16c21$sti$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 21:09, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-08-01, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>> Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example,
>> 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0).
>>
>> Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go
>> directly to `make menuconfig`?
>
> It's always safe to do 'make menuconfig', and always has been (at
> least since the 0.97 days when I started running Linux). You just
> have to select all the options correctly.
>
> All that 'make oldconfig' does is start you out with something as
> close to your old kernel configuration as possible.
>
Sorry for the misunderstanding, my bad.
What I meant was:
If I want a kernel config as close as possible to the older kernel,
can I just use `make menuconfig`, or do I have to first run `make
oldconfig`.
Again, sorry for the confusion.
Rgds,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-01 2:06 [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary? Pandu Poluan
2011-08-01 2:23 ` Jeremy McSpadden
2011-08-01 2:42 ` Dale
2011-08-01 11:52 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-08-01 2:44 ` Mark Knecht
2011-08-01 4:16 ` Bill Longman
2011-08-01 11:56 ` David W Noon
2011-08-01 14:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-08-01 14:13 ` Michael Mol
2011-08-01 14:39 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-08-01 16:58 ` David W Noon
2011-08-01 21:41 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-01 16:00 ` [gentoo-user] " kashani
2011-08-01 20:26 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-08-01 20:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
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