Yesterday, James R. Van Zandt gleaned this insight:

> 
> 
> I discovered that you can copy the .config from a previous version of
> the kernel into the new source tree.  That sets the defaults the way
> you like them.  If you use "make config", the new questions are
> flagged as "NEW".  Changing just one thing is a lot easier with "make
> menuconfig", though.

You can do that, and if you copy an old .config file you can also use

  make oldconfig

to change ONLY the settings that are different.


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Derek D. Martin              |  Unix/Linux Geek
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