On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 06:06:51PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 15:13:34 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > > It seems that deleting stuff in "make menuconfig" is 90% of the work in a > > kernel config. All etherenet drivers are default enabled. What bugs me is > > that with every kernel upgrade, "make oldconfig" shows a whole bunch of new > > ethernet drivers, and they're all default enabled. > > You can avoid that by copying your .config file from the previous version.
Even then, running a `make syncconfig` on your old .config in a new kernel sources directory will ask all the same questions regarding new features. Some defaults are sensible, some are not. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA
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