On 2003-12-08, David Gethings wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:37, David Gethings wrote: > > If you wish to change the kernel config use 'genkernel --config'. If not > > then just run 'genkernel'. > Sorry, forgot to mention. If you do not run genkernel with --config then > it does a 'make oldconfig'. AFAIK this is just basic config that comes > with the kernel so it will not include your options. > > To include your option from the previous release then copy .config from > the old kernel version to the new. i.e. cp gentoo-r8/.config gentoo-r9/ > > Then you can run genkernel and it will honour your old options. > > If I am wrong then please someone say so. As this is how I do and if it > is wrong then build is potentially broken! :P > I don't know if you are totally wrong, but this is what i dug out; if you take a look at the /usr/sbin/genkernel script then you can see that it is supposed to search for a file called /etc/kernels/default-config which is *Automatically generated by make menuconfig*! It seems to be my default kernel-config file, am I right? In that case genkernel should be using that file...
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