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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:17:46 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> > Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? |
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> I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the |
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> versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions |
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> is unsafe. |
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0.0.01 is hardly a big leap! You wouldn't want to use oldconfig in a big |
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jump, say from 2.4 to 2.6, but for incremental versions it is the best |
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approach. There is far more chance of you messing things up in a new, |
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from scratch config than using oldconfig. |
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> Not to mention the great whack of new options. If you do a |
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> diff -y between the two configs there are lots of gaps. |
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That's precisely what oldconfig deals with. |
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