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  • From: Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
  • To: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Reconfiguring the running kernel
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:36:45 -0500

Right, but make oldconfig seems to break a lot of the upgrades. It's a
shame there isn't some merge between oldconfig and menuconfig though I
just skim through the menus and figure it out. Not too much changes
usually.

Jeremy

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 19:18, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:42, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> > Why should make oldconfig default to y? I've found that in most cases
> > it's broken and it only provides you with a command line interface,
> > which is fine, but i like menuconfig.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
>
> make config and oldconfig are the text interfaces.
> the reason for running oldconfig is to see what changes have been
> introduced
> since your .config was written.
> make menuconfig actually does the same thing (provides default answers to
> new
> options) but you have no way of knowing what it added, what it answered or
> even what has changed.
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