On Sunday 09 October 2005 17:24, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:56:18 +0200 Francesco Talamona
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 October 2005 04:37, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> >> make
> >> make install #I don't have any modules
> >
> > In such cases first of all do a "make oldconfig".
>
> Really? I did make menuconfig and have never used oldconfig before
> when moving to a new kernel.
>
> allan
I stand corrected, it is apparently done anyway by make process, so it
makes no difference.
>From /usr/src/linux/Makefile (around line 491, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9):
[...]
# If .config is newer than include/linux/autoconf.h, someone tinkered
# with it and forgot to run make oldconfig
include/linux/autoconf.h: .config
$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/Makefile silentoldconfig
else
[...]
I reckon this step more or less as mandatory, maybe was needed to upgade
from 2.4 kernel series...
Ciao
Francesco
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