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From:	Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config
Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:55:52
Message-Id:	`20171228195236.GA17094@ACM`

1	Hello, Gentoo.
2
3	Having just built linux-4.14.7-gentoo, suddenly a new version of the
4	kernel, linux-4.14.8-gentoo-r1 has become stable. Configuring a kernel
5	from scratch is a repetitive drudge.
6
7	There is some way of initialising a new kernel .config from an existing
8	one, I am sure, but I can't find it. I've looked at the Gentoo wiki,
9	I've looked at (some of) the kernel's own documentation. The nearest I
10	can find is make oldconfig, which supposedly does what I want, but it
11	just seems to start off with a default .config and go through the
12	hundreds of questions one at a time.
13
14	So, would some kind soul please tell me how to get my old .config into a
15	new one properly. Thanks!
16
17	--
18	Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config	Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config	Francesco Turco <fturco@××××××××.fm>
Re: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config	Ralph Seichter <m16+gentoo@×××××××××××.net>