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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Kernel build failing on new install
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:17:42
Message-Id: rm74qa$1ph$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Kernel build failing on new install by Walter Dnes
1 On 2020-10-14, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
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3 > That's what "make oldconfig" is about. Copy over the previous kernel
4 > .config and use that as a starting point. Any additional ethernet
5 > drivers in the new kernel are defaulted to enabled.
6
7 I've been doing "make oldconfig" for almost 30 years. I've never seen
8 a new Ethernet driver enabled by default.
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11 Grant