On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011-08-01, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example, >> 2.6.38), and now I want to install a newer kernel (let's say, 3.0). >> >> Is it necessary to first do `make oldconfig`, or is it safe to go >> directly to `make menuconfig`? > > It's always safe to do 'make menuconfig', and always has been (at > least since the 0.97 days when I started running Linux). You just > have to select all the options correctly. > > All that 'make oldconfig' does is start you out with something as > close to your old kernel configuration as possible.
Which is an incredible timesaver...I hope I never forget to keep the "/proc/config.gz" option enabled again. -- :wq
