Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Francesco Turco <fturco@××××××××.fm>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config
Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:24:59
Message-Id:	`1514492692.1830952.1218177816.0A5D3FAB@webmail.messagingengine.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config by Alan Mackenzie

1	On Thu, Dec 28, 2017, at 20:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
2	> There is some way of initialising a new kernel .config from an existing
3	> one, I am sure, but I can't find it. I've looked at the Gentoo wiki,
4	> I've looked at (some of) the kernel's own documentation. The nearest I
5	> can find is make oldconfig, which supposedly does what I want, but it
6	> just seems to start off with a default .config and go through the
7	> hundreds of questions one at a time.
8
9	What about: make olddefconfig
10	?