I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10 to 2.6.11 and I wondered if it was safe
to load the .config file from the old kernel to the new. This is so I
don't have to keep manually adjusting the kernel options when I just want
an updated kernel.
It seems to work ok when I did it but can anyone confirm if this is
considered an acceptable practice and will it cause problems?

Andrew Walker wrote:
> I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10 to 2.6.11 and I wondered if it was safe
> to load the .config file from the old kernel to the new. This is so I
> don't have to keep manually adjusting the kernel options when I just want
> an updated kernel.
> It seems to work ok when I did it but can anyone confirm if this is
> considered an acceptable practice and will it cause problems?

Yeah man, just copy it over then instead of doping a `make menuconfig`
or what-have-you, run `make oldconfig`; then you can select the new
options or changed options in the new kernel

Andrew Walker wrote:

> I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10 to 2.6.11 and I wondered if it was safe
> to load the .config file from the old kernel to the new. This is so I
> don't have to keep manually adjusting the kernel options when I just want
> an updated kernel.
> It seems to work ok when I did it but can anyone confirm if this is
> considered an acceptable practice and will it cause problems?

This is what I use, have worked so far

## cd /usr/src/linux
## cp /proc/config.gz .; gunzip config.gz; mv config .config
## genkernel --xconfig --oldconfig --gensplash all

Malcolm wrote:

> Andrew Walker wrote:
>> I've upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10 to 2.6.11 and I wondered if it was safe
>> to load the .config file from the old kernel to the new. This is so I
>> don't have to keep manually adjusting the kernel options when I just want
>> an updated kernel.
>> It seems to work ok when I did it but can anyone confirm if this is
>> considered an acceptable practice and will it cause problems?
>
> Yeah man, just copy it over then instead of doping a `make menuconfig`
> or what-have-you, run `make oldconfig`; then you can select the new
> options or changed options in the new kernel

I just want to point out if you update from 2.4.x to 2.6.x, you can not use
the old config file. Not even `make oldconfig`. It really not working. You
need to config the whole thing via `make menuconfig' or `make xconfig'

Tom

"Lars H." <lars.hesdorf@mail.dk> wrote:

[snip]
> ## cp /proc/config.gz .; gunzip config.gz; mv config .config

$ zcat /proc/config.gz > .config

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