Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

[Graham Murray]

Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:

> I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is supposed to
> be incorporated so no I didn't
>
> If I had put .confg into the new sources, then plain make menuconfig
> is what I would have used.

That is the wrong way round! make oldconfig uses the .config in the
kernel directory, which in the case of an upgrade is the *default* (ie
without any customisations) config. make oldconfig does *not* operate on
the running kernel. You have to copy the .config from the running (old)
kernel to the new kernel directory before running make oldconfig. If you
start with the default config, then you have to run make menuconfig (or
config or xconfig) to customise it every time.