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.
That's what "make oldconfig" is about. Copy over the previous kernel .config and use that as a starting point. Any additional ethernet drivers in the new kernel are defaulted to enabled. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
