[ILUG] Kernel Question

scytale scytale at eircom.net
Fri Aug 13 11:36:25 IST 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 03:47, Stephen Brooks wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 11:39, Dermot Daly wrote:
> > Isn't there a "make oldconfig" option?  I thought there was.  This
> > builds a .config file from your current kernel
> 
> 	That relies on there being a .config or .config.old present from the
> previous kernel build and then attempts to merge in the old settings
> where applicable to make a new .config file.

does this work ok, say, when the config file is from a 2.4 kernel and
you are about to compile a 2.6?

t

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