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On Friday 22 February 2008, Grant wrote: |
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> > Too bad that 'oldconfig' isn't always working :-( |
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> Is there a better way to update the config for a new kernel? |
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Not really. |
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You are dealing with a complex system of configuration settings that |
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react in mysterious ways. AND that seeing as this is a kernel, the hard |
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decisions are best left to humans, not software. |
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So all that oldconfig really does is look for settings that are present |
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in the source tree but not accounted for in your .config |
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For everything else, you get to look yourself. Or, in the usual case, |
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study it for 10 hours to find out what the heck it is, then look for |
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yourself. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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