Hello, Jack. On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 15:05:04 -0500, Jack wrote: > On 2017.12.28 14:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo.
> > Having just built linux-4.14.7-gentoo, suddenly a new version of the > > kernel, linux-4.14.8-gentoo-r1 has become stable. Configuring a > > kernel from scratch is a repetitive drudge. > > There is some way of initialising a new kernel .config from an > > existing one, I am sure, but I can't find it. I've looked at the > > Gentoo wiki, I've looked at (some of) the kernel's own > > documentation. The nearest I can find is make oldconfig, which > > supposedly does what I want, but it just seems to start off with a > > default .config and go through the hundreds of questions one at a > > time. > > So, would some kind soul please tell me how to get my old .config > > into a new one properly. Thanks! > You need to copy your old .config into the new kernel source > directory. "make oldconfig" then uses those values, and only asks you > about new items. It sounds like it was asking about everything because > it didn't have the old file as a starting point - so was starting from > scratch. Thanks, that was exactly what I needed. In the end, the configurer didn't ask any questions. It looks like there were no new options introduced by 4.18.8-r1. > Jack -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
