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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:

> Then why not just use the old version's kernel config when it's not -r
> on an update?  Then the next time they do make menuconfig (or oldconfig)
> it will have all the proper (NEW) references for the user to check out.
> At least for revision-level updates, the kernel config rarely actually
> changes and so it would be nice to do that.  If it breaks, you would
> have needed to use -r anyways.

I don't think this is the case. Now I remember that on more than one occasion,
doing "oldconfig" thing actually straightened out my configuration, and the
kernel would build and work.