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 > from Portage). For changing series (moving from gentoo-sources to > mm-sources), I do care, but that's why I manually go through the > menuconfig in that case. $DEITY knows I've compiled enough kernels to > recognize most new stuff, and if I'm not sure, I read the option's Help, > as I've always found it invaluable.
Within a particular kernel version, there generally aren't any new options, so it makes no difference which method you use. When the kernel version is incremented, there may be new options added, and make oldconfig seems a more reliable way of being notified of them than trawling through menuconfig hoping to see them. I rarely run make menuconfig when upgrading a kernel. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb? A. Only one - who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke.
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