Building new 2.4.1x kernels.

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:17:36AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:19:57 -0500
> "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:12:05 -0500
> > begin  kbb0927 at cs.com spewed forth:
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> > > Thanks. I clicked on the link on the main page. I knew there had to
> > > be tarballs of the complete kernel somewhere.
> > 
> > I find it hard to believe that anyone on this list would waste
> > bandwidth to d/l 25Mb when one or two 1Mb d/l will do the same thing. 
> > Patching is not hard.  If there's no SxS on patching, ...
> 
> My sxs on patching is still on the site.
> 
> > It's brain dead simple and allows you to use your old
> > .config (as in `make oldoconfig`) and only decide to incorporate or no
> > the new stuff.
> > 
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> Just a side note, my experience with 'make oldconfig' has been less than
> stellar.  I found out the hard way that 'make oldconfig' would change
> kernel options silently (sometimes built-in to modules, as I remember),
> so I only use 'make oldconfig' to point out changes.   After getting
> burnt once, I now always save my existing config, use 'make menuconfig',
> load the old version, make changes, save my changes in the old place,
> then save the .config.

That's precisely what "make oldconfig" is *supposed* to do, remember existing
kernel options silently and only point out new configuration changes.

Kurt