On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 11:41:34AM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote: > > > >The best starting place for the kernel is 'make defconfig'. 'make > >help' gives a lot of other options. Generally the help page for each > >option gives a reasonable summary, but takes a long time to go through > >everything. > > Indeed, and even so, it's not clear what they "mean", what the > implications are. Particularly so for new options. I don't have time > to follow all the kernel lists about things that seem to be irrelevant > to my "here and now".
By the time a kernel is released (i.e. the '.0' version), its help is often useful, but of course occasionally missing or misleading. When you take your previous config and run 'make oldconfig', try looking at the help if you are not certain. If in doubt, make a note of the option so that you can revisit it, or google, if you have problems. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
