From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig necessary?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:09:05 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j16c21$sti$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAA2qdGWo4XET9Ahu9zmR6Zj-4O51fy9pAHTSf+a-D=Km5hD0sQ@mail.gmail.com
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.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 14:10 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 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2011-08-01 14:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mol
2011-08-01 14:39 ` Pandu Poluan
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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