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On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 06:06:51PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote |
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> On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 15:13:34 BST Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > It seems that deleting stuff in "make menuconfig" is 90% of the work in a |
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> > kernel config. All etherenet drivers are default enabled. What bugs me is |
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> > that with every kernel upgrade, "make oldconfig" shows a whole bunch of new |
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> > ethernet drivers, and they're all default enabled. |
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> You can avoid that by copying your .config file from the previous version. |
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That's what "make oldconfig" is about. Copy over the previous kernel |
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.config and use that as a starting point. Any additional ethernet |
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drivers in the new kernel are defaulted to enabled. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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