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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:41:07 -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:

> I tried make oldconfig and it looked in and took it's info from 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4/config/kernel-2.4.20-i686.config, which is what I get 
> with uname -r.  Then it created a new ".config" file from that so 
> copying the config file was not necessary.

An existing .config file takes precedence and need not match the
configuration of the running kernel. "make oldconfig" takes defaults
from the RH-specific ./configs/*.config files only if no .config file
exists already.

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