During last night's cron job, new sources for the linux-2.6.8-gentoo-r10
were installed in /usr/src.
I want to use this new version but I'm unsure how to go about it.
Is this the way?...

1) Change the /usr/src/linux link to the new sources.
2) Copy my old .config to the new source dir.
3) make oldconfig.
4) make menuconfig then go as normal from there?

Will that make sure I can use my already working well kernel config with
the new kernel? I spent many hours tweaking the old kernel and don't want
to have to do it all again.

Thanks.

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jafar wrote:

> During last night's cron job, new sources for the
> linux-2.6.8-gentoo-r10 were installed in /usr/src. I want to use this
> new version but I'm unsure how to go about it. Is this the way?...
>
> 1) Change the /usr/src/linux link to the new sources.
> 2) Copy my old .config to the new source dir.
> 3) make oldconfig.
> 4) make menuconfig then go as normal from there?

Only do step 4 if you saw anything that looked important during make
oldconfig. For instance, at one point a year or so ago my IDE driver
got split from the generic driver. This change meant that DMA suddenly
didn't work any more. Therefore I had to manually change a few things
around after make oldconfig finished. Other than that, it's usually
safe to build and install the kernel after make oldconfig.

> Will that make sure I can use my already working well kernel config
> with the new kernel? I spent many hours tweaking the old kernel and
> don't want to have to do it all again.

With make oldconfig you'll rarely need to. Only something like 2.4 ->
2.6 isn't safe to do with make oldconfig ...

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I demand that on Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:15:57 +0000, Peter Jensen may or may
not have written:

> With make oldconfig you'll rarely need to. Only something like 2.4 ->
> 2.6 isn't safe to do with make oldconfig ...

Thanks for your advice. So now I don't have to worry so much going from
2.6.8-r3 to 2.6.8-r10

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