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From: Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: oops with 2.6.13-gentto-r3
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:48:07
Message-Id: 200510091837.11766.ti.liame@email.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: oops with 2.6.13-gentto-r3 by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Sunday 09 October 2005 17:24, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > At Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:56:18 +0200 Francesco Talamona
3 <ti.liame@×××××.it> wrote:
4 > > On Sunday 09 October 2005 04:37, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
5 > >> make
6 > >> make install #I don't have any modules
7 > >
8 > > In such cases first of all do a "make oldconfig".
9 >
10 > Really? I did make menuconfig and have never used oldconfig before
11 > when moving to a new kernel.
12 >
13 > allan
14 I stand corrected, it is apparently done anyway by make process, so it
15 makes no difference.
16 >From /usr/src/linux/Makefile (around line 491, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9):
17 [...]
18 # If .config is newer than include/linux/autoconf.h, someone tinkered
19 # with it and forgot to run make oldconfig
20 include/linux/autoconf.h: .config
21 $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile silentoldconfig
22 else
23 [...]
24 I reckon this step more or less as mandatory, maybe was needed to upgade
25 from 2.4 kernel series...
26
27 Ciao
28 Francesco
29
30 --
31 Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST
32 2005
33 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4308.99 Bogomips Total
34 aemaeth
35
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