Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Coert Waagmeester
<lgroups@waagmeester.co.za> wrote:
> On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
<SNIP>
>>>
>>> Is there a way to import old config files with newer kernel sources?
>>> I tried it once by simply copying .config into the newer src dir, but
>>> I read somewhere that there could be incompatibilities.
>>>
>>
>> That is exactly how you do it. Copy a .config over and run make
>> oldconfig
>
>
> I am definitely going to try this.
>>

If I can offer one additional step then at the end also do a make
menuconfig even if you don't intend to change anything. The additional
menuconfig runs checks on the combination of options selected and not
selected and in some cases will pop up some messages about
incorrect/inconsistent settings. No messages means it's OK to do the
build, but if you get messages then it's best to take care of them
before building.

HTH,
Mark