On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > No you're not. But it is far easier to miss important changes without > oldconfig to point them out to you by shoving them in your face.
That's how I use it. I do oldconfig as a kind of "kernel config diff" and then follow it by menuconfig and a quick browsing of the critical settings to make sure they look sane enough to boot. As long as it boots and supports my disks and filesystems I can sort out any minor settings/module changes after that.
