On (03/06/09 15:40) Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: > > > >> Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make > >> oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. > >> > > > > That's the correct way :-) > > > > But the OP asked if there was some magic way to get genkernel to use the > > same > > config as #SOME_OTHER_KERNEL. > > > > Which of course makes no sense as there can be multiple versions and > > configs > > present. > > > > The small remaining part of me that is still mostly unaffected by the onset > > of > > senility seems to remember genkernel being able to do something expressed > > as: > > > > zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config > > genkernel [....] > > > > Which I suppose is a reasonable thing for an app like genkernel to do. > > But I could also just be imagining it. It happens :-) > > > > > > > > True, I did go a little off base. I did try genkernel once a long time > ago. It included things for hardware I didn't have then omitted the > driver for my IDE chipset, did include that slow as crap generic tho. > Anyway, to me, genkernel is a waste of time. This is Gentoo, we want > only what we need and not one bit more. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Hi,
genkernel uses a default config-file, check /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86/kernel-config. i've backed it up, changing it to current .config. Works always (haven't used it recently though). HTH, Rumen
