On Sunday 14 October 2012 15:46:43 Dale wrote: > Francisco Ares wrote: > > As my old kernel is from the 2.6 series and the new is from the > > 3.4, I decided to do a "menuconfig" from scratch. I do use "lspci" > > and also I always build the kernel allowing "/proc/config.gz", so > > it is easy to get exactly what is working, although I keep my own > > bacup copies of ".config", for future references. When I am > > building a kernel, I use to open the latest ".config" in a > > separate console, for reference. That has kept me of forgetting > > plenty of details. > > > I can understand why. There would have been a huge number of new > options to check on. Doing it from scratch with menuconfig could > have been just as fast or maybe even faster. May have been worth > trying but may have ended up with more issues.
I found long ago that menuconfig flags new options with [NEW] to the right of the option name, so it's easy to find out what's changed since you last ran a config operation. That can easily reduce a several-hours config job to no more than half an hour. Still quite a task, but not in the same league as configuring from scratch. -- Rgds Peter
