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On (03/06/09 15:40) Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: |
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> >> Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make |
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> >> oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. |
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> > That's the correct way :-) |
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> > But the OP asked if there was some magic way to get genkernel to use the same |
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> > config as #SOME_OTHER_KERNEL. |
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> > Which of course makes no sense as there can be multiple versions and configs |
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> > present. |
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> > The small remaining part of me that is still mostly unaffected by the onset of |
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> > senility seems to remember genkernel being able to do something expressed as: |
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> > zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config |
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> > genkernel [....] |
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> > Which I suppose is a reasonable thing for an app like genkernel to do. |
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> > But I could also just be imagining it. It happens :-) |
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> True, I did go a little off base. I did try genkernel once a long time |
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> ago. It included things for hardware I didn't have then omitted the |
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> driver for my IDE chipset, did include that slow as crap generic tho. |
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> Anyway, to me, genkernel is a waste of time. This is Gentoo, we want |
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> only what we need and not one bit more. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Hi, |
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genkernel uses a default config-file, check |
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/usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86/kernel-config. |
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i've backed it up, changing it to current .config. |
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Works always (haven't used it recently though). |
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HTH, Rumen |
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