Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Mike Owen schreef: On 5/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:24:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: For changing series, I definitely prefer to look at the kernel config anyway, to see what options the series' patches have added, but for upgrading within the same series, if nothing has really changed, it's nice to know you can just

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:24:52 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: For changing series, I definitely prefer to look at the kernel config anyway, to see what options the series' patches have added, but for upgrading within the same series, if nothing has really changed, it's nice

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2005 12:18:19 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: The disadvantage of this approach is that you don't get to see what new options have been added. Within the series, I probably don't care (i.e., moving from gentoo-sources -r6 to -r8, which I only even did because -r6 was removed

[gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread James
Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I perviously used xconfig (make xconfig) in lieu of make menuconfig,

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Owen
On 5/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I perviously used

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
oldconfig usually works for minor version changes - just don't use it to go from say a 2.4 to 2.6. xconfig needs qt installed - I get an error about qt when I try to run it. * * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the * QT development package is correctly installed and

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
make help and i thinks its oldconfig, not oldmenuconfig ? On Thu, 26 May 2005 01:16:20 + (UTC) James wrote: Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make