On 2009-11-04, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> Just checking - but you didn't mention: did you copy the >> .config to the new kernel src directory? If not, that would >> certainly explain the disparity in configuration settings >> you're seeing. > > I think you can say make `oldconfig' and the `old config' is > supposed to be incorporated
No, it isn't. > so no I didn't That's the problem. > If I had put .config into the new sources, then plain make > menuconfig is what I would have used. No, that's when you use make oldconfig: when you've placed a .config file from an old kernel into the build directory. Doing a "make oldconfig" will used the existing .config file as much as possible and ask you questions about new choices. > Do you know where the man pages or docs for that stuff is .. > its not in `man make' Have you tried looking in the 'Documentation' directory in the linux source tree? > I'd like to check some of that. Good idea. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... I'm IMAGINING a at sensuous GIRAFFE, CAVORTING visi.com in the BACK ROOM of a KOSHER DELI --