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On 2009-11-04, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Just checking - but you didn't mention: did you copy the |
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>> .config to the new kernel src directory? If not, that would |
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>> certainly explain the disparity in configuration settings |
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>> you're seeing. |
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> I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is |
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> supposed to be incorporated |
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No, it isn't. |
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> so no I didn't |
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That's the problem. |
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> If I had put .config into the new sources, then plain make |
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> menuconfig is what I would have used. |
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No, that's when you use make oldconfig: when you've placed a |
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.config file from an old kernel into the build directory. |
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Doing a "make oldconfig" will used the existing .config file as |
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much as possible and ask you questions about new choices. |
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> Do you know where the man pages or docs for that stuff is .. |
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> its not in `man make' |
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Have you tried looking in the 'Documentation' directory in the |
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linux source tree? |
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> I'd like to check some of that. |
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Good idea. |
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