On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:58:47PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:42:39PM -0700, nate wrote: > > never used oldconfig, I usually just manually re-configure each kernel > > as I get them(habbit? maybe). > > > > Also, I'd like to know that if I copied .config from 2.4.4 to 2.4.19, > what happens to the new configuration features that may have become > available in 2.4.19. For example, would NEW_FEATURE show up in the > correct category when I do "make menuconfig"? >
Yes it would. As I understand it "make menuconfig" implies "make
oldconfig". YMMV, but it has always worked from me within same major
kernel versions (i.e 2.2.17->2.2.18 and 2.4.18->2.4.19). From what I
understand, converting between different major numbers is unsupported at
best, and will not work at worst. For example, I don't think kernel
writers try to make configurations between the 2.2 branch and the 2.4
branch work the same.
Happy to help,
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