On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:02:38 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:11:24 -0800, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Or just import .config into the 'New' directory, and run plain ol' > > make menuconfig. Menuconfig will import what it can from the old > > config. From what I've read of the docs, make oldconfig is the > > dangerous part that should be avoided between substantial kernel > > updates. > > make oldconfig is not the risk, importing the old config is. oldconfig > tries to convert the old config to suit the new kernel, with a success > rate probably in excess of 99%, despite what has been written about > it. > > Using the old .config without make oldconfig is a good way of getting > the worst of both worlds. The previous poster is doing make menuconfig. This silently performs a make oldconfig before presenting the menu. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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