On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:15:29PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Toby Cubitt wrote: > > > >The kernel iptables implementation changed somewhat between 2.6.15 and > >2.6.16. In particular, "make oldconfig" won't set things up > >correctly. > > What do you mean with that? I set up my 2.6.16 kernels with make oldconfig, > using the 2.6.15 configs. > > What's broken now? I'm curious, as I didn't notice any breakage - which > might just mean, that I haven't looked closely enough. Because of that, > I'd like to know what to look out for.
Nothing will break as such. But some things you might expect to be compiled in won't be, like iptables. This is always a risk when using "make oldconfig", and it's why the docs advise you to avoid using it between major kernel version bumps (2.4 to 2.6). In practice, I find it useful even in that case, so long as you then "make menuconfig" to check through the options, and add missing ones. Toby -- PhD Student Quantum Information Theory group Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.dr-qubit.org -- [email protected] mailing list
