On 2009-11-04, Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Just checking - but you didn't mention: did you copy the
>> .config to the new kernel src directory? If not, that would
>> certainly explain the disparity in configuration settings
>> you're seeing.
>
> I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is
> supposed to be incorporated
No, it isn't.
> so no I didn't
That's the problem.
> If I had put .config into the new sources, then plain make
> menuconfig is what I would have used.
No, that's when you use make oldconfig: when you've placed a
.config file from an old kernel into the build directory.
Doing a "make oldconfig" will used the existing .config file as
much as possible and ask you questions about new choices.
> Do you know where the man pages or docs for that stuff is ..
> its not in `man make'
Have you tried looking in the 'Documentation' directory in the
linux source tree?
> I'd like to check some of that.
Good idea.
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