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On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Mick wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:20, Billy McCann wrote: |
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> > > Hi Mick. From what I understand, using oldconfig for major |
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> > > version changes (.20 -> .21) is a bad idea. Here's what I did. It |
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> > > may be slow and stupid but it worked like a charm. |
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> > Sure, but I have been using oldconfig for previous major changes and |
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> > never had a problem like this before. |
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> Now you know why the kernel devs keep telling you not to do it, heh :-) |
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I don't know which kernel dev keeps saying that, but I'd recommend |
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he/she specify what is meant by "major version" since, historically: |
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2.6.22 |
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| | +--- Revision |
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| +----- Minor version |
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+------- Major version |
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And therefore .20 -> .21 would not be considered a "major" version |
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change by most accounts. |
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Albert W. Hopkins |
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