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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "auto-config" of new gentoo-sources?
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:09:33
Message-Id: 87r4jpdjnk.fsf@einstein.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "auto-config" of new gentoo-sources? by Mike Gilbert
1 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> writes:
2
3 > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> So my question is: how is this possible? Is maybe ".config"
5 >> file from the old sources-tree copied to new sources-tree?
6 >> Or is the actual configuration of running kernel somehow
7 >> detected and ".config" file generated?
8 >>
9 >
10 > The latter. Have a look at DEFCONFIG_LIST init/Kconfig.
11
12 So is it no longer necessary to run 'zcat /proc/config.gz > .config' to
13 transfer the current configuration as a 'seed' when installing a new
14 kernel?

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Re: [gentoo-user] "auto-config" of new gentoo-sources? Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>