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On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:06:17 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about
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"[gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?":
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>Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, |
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>2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). |
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>Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go |
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>directly to `make menuconfig`? |
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For some years now, make menuconfig has performed a silent make
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oldconfig before it brings up the menu. I stopped using make oldconfig
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in about 2007, after I was confident that the change to make menuconfig
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was working.
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- --
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Regards,
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Dave [RLU #314465]
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