On Wednesday 03 October 2007 17:44:52 Jed R. Mallen wrote: > Thank you to all who responded. `make oldconfig` works as usual without the > worries. I was a bit apprehensive because of the gentoo kernel upgrade > guide warning about using oldconfigs but turns out it's safe afterall.
I was kind of surprised to see that the gentoo kernel upgrade guide does indeed warn about `make oldconfig` (which isn't the same as warning about reusing old configs). So after digging a bit it turns out dsd has an explanation in his devspace.. ;) http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/make_oldconfig.htm -- Bo Andresen
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