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From: Andreas Stiasny <gentoo@××××××××××××××××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading old kernel
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:41:02
Message-Id: f1acb157-342f-be31-8735-e8ffcfc03539@lists.stiasny.priv.at
1 On 15.04.20 17:50, Rich Freeman wrote:
2
3 > Jumping from
4 > 3.18 you're somewhat more likely to run into issues - your biggest
5 > headache though will be dealing with the 30,000 prompts you get from
6 > make oldconfig and making sure you set all the new options correctly.
7
8 That's why I use make olddefconfig in such a case. This takes all the
9 old config values and uses the default for the new ones. If you know
10 that you need one or more of the new config options you can fine tune
11 them afterwards with make menuconfig.
12
13
14 Andreas

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