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On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 01:41:33AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Saturday 28 July 2012 21:19:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > I use both: |
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> Me too (sorry), though I find myself using oldconfig more often than |
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> menuconfig these days, unless I want to comb right through the config |
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> looking for things I could improve. |
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> > first oldconfig to find the newly added stuff...then menuconfig, mostly |
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> > looking for driver pages that have lots of things set - I can't |
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> > possibly have all of that hardware so logically few things must be |
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> > set. menuconfig also lets me easily see things I hve never explicitly |
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> > set (which oldconfig can't do) and labels them (NEW) which is |
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> > distinctly different to what oldconfig calls new stuff |
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> Is it really? I thought they ought to be the same. And the only snag |
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> with menuconfig for finding new options is that you have to navigate every |
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> single menu - quite time-consuming*. |
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> > And in menuconfig, the / key engages search, just like in vim |
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> Ah. I knew about the ? key since it's in the prompt. Seems I can drop |
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> the shift. Ta. |
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> * Speaking of consuming time, would someone with an i7 please tell me |
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> how long it takes to compile a new kernel? I'd like to compare it with |
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> my i5, which after mrproper and copying the .config in from /boot, where |
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> I store it for safe keeping, was 2 min 7 sec just now. (This is related |
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> to another thread; perhaps I should have asked this there instead.) |
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Just by way of comparison, my Centrino laptop does it in about an hour flat. |
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Terry |
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