RE: .config

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

... but you don't know which ones are the new ones unless you use oldconfig
:)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: A.Sajjad Zaidi [mailto:sajjad@example.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:14 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Re: .config


Jim Tittsler wrote:

> Once you find an old .config copy it to your new kernel source
> tree.  Then take advantage of the handy 'make oldconfig'
> command to just get asked configuration questions that weren't
> in your old kerenel.

But those questions can get pretty long if the versions are far apart. I
just run 'make menuconfig' after copying .config there. It picks up the
old settings and I can then choose what I want from the new ones.


A.Sajjad Zaidi

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