Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:18:24
Message-Id: CAOooyEtEyTxWugSM5bUtf+u9sOKyFhocv1EPuTNRUv1HEP0J3A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary? by Pandu Poluan
1 On Jul 31, 2011 7:06 PM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
2 >
3 > Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example,
4 > 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0).
5 >
6 > Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go
7 > directly to `make menuconfig`?
8 >
9
10 You may also want to try "make silentoldconfig"