On 10 June 2015 at 22:45, Paul Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Personally, I never use kernel patches to update the kernel; I always > > re-build from scratch, but using the same .config where possible. I > > think that's the safer way to do things. > > Really? I've always though that risky because parameters get removed > and added, you've still got the first and miss the second. Do you run > oldconfig at least? > If I have minor changes to make I'll edit .config directly in a text editor, changing "is not set" to "=y". If I have a greater number of changes I'll run "make menuconfig", using my original .config, and run through it quickly (or as quickly as is possible). No, I don't run oldconfig; I've found that just running "make" generally throws up any critical parameters that may have changed and allows me to make adjustments at that stage. I'm not saying that this is the "correct" way of doing things, but it's generally worked for me. The last issue I had was with iptables, but that resulted in a harmless warning when booting the new kernel. Over time I've had very few problems with this approach. Richard
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