>Again, randomly copying .config files and not checking what might
>have changed is asking for trouble. What made you expect that 
>the .config for a particular kernel would work on another kernel?

That it had always worked for me in the past, for quite a few minor
version increments in the 2.4.x series?

>Y'mean like this??

> - Do a "make config" to configure the basic kernel.  "make config" needs

That's basically what I've always done. After copying my old .config,
I'd run "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig", browse the menus and then
save the new config file before doing the actual build.

It just seems that when upgrading from 2.4.18 to 2.4.19, this specific
procedure no longer avoids generating inconsistent or illegal
combinations of configuration parameters that aren't apparent until
run time, after the new kernel has been booted and all the modules had
apparently loaded successfully. So I manually configured 2.4.19 from
scratch, and all is well again. Thanks for the tip.

My intent was simply to reduce the chances of error by starting with a
closer set of configuration defaults than those provided in a "virgin"
distribution. For example, I use ext3fs but it's configured off by
default.  Forgetting to turn it back on could result in my system
becoming unbootable.

Oh, with regard to the correct list for reporting bugs, it was not
clear which of the two USB mailing lists given in the MAINTAINERS file
should be used.

Thanks,

Phil


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