Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Mittwoch 04 November 2009 05:10:52 schrieb Harry Putnam:

> I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to
> be incorporated so no I didn't

No, that's only half of the truth. You need to copy .config from your old 
kernel first. I'd compile the config into the kernel, so that you can access it 
from the running kernel any time, via /proc/config(.gz).

> If I had put .confg into the new sources, then plain make menuconfig
> is what I would have used.

This is how I do it since years. Works fine. Never used oldconfig.

> Do you know where the man pages or docs for that stuff is .. its not in
> `man make'

But in "make help" when you are in the kernel source directory.

HTH...

	Dirk