Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:59:11 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > fwiw, I think I've always just copied the old .config across, then > > > done "make menuconfig". I think that also just accepts defaults for > > > anything new. > > > > It doesn't, it prompts for every change, with the default > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 5 April 2021 19:43:29 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 19:04:18 +0100, antlists wrote: > > > For the uninitiated, the difference here is that olddefconfig will > > > accept the default configuration value for any new/changed options, > > > whereas oldconfig will prompt the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 19:04:18 +0100, antlists wrote: > > For the uninitiated, the difference here is that olddefconfig will > > accept the default configuration value for any new/changed options, > > whereas oldconfig will prompt the user for input. > > > > The former is great if you just don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread antlists
On 05/04/2021 15:06, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 13:27 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: "make olddefconfig"  rather than  "make oldconfig" For the uninitiated, the difference here is that olddefconfig will accept the default configuration value for any new/changed options,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 13:27 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > "make olddefconfig"  rather than  "make oldconfig" For the uninitiated, the difference here is that olddefconfig will accept the default configuration value for any new/changed options, whereas oldconfig will prompt the user for input.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Mon 05 Apr 2021 13:27:01 GMT, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > I'm always using "make olddefconfig" rather than "make oldconfig" and > had no problems upgrading to 5.10. After running "make olddefconfig" I > use "diff" to compare the new configuration to a backup copy of the old > one, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sun 04 Apr 2021 23:56:05 GMT, Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 4 April 2021 23:31:50 BST Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has the 5.10 LTS has been stablised, I tried to upgrade it on some of my > > boxes, but `make oldconfig` doesn’t want to use my old config: > > Here is my make output:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Alarig, On Monday, 2021-04-05 00:31:50 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Has the 5.10 LTS has been stablised, I tried to upgrade it on some of my > boxes, but `make oldconfig` doesn’t want to use my old config: I'm always using "make olddefconfig" rather than "make oldconfig" and had no problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-04 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 4 April 2021 23:31:50 BST Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hello, > > Has the 5.10 LTS has been stablised, I tried to upgrade it on some of my > boxes, but `make oldconfig` doesn’t want to use my old config: > Here is my make output: https://paste.swordarmor.fr/raw/2rRh > And here is my config:

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-04 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hello, Has the 5.10 LTS has been stablised, I tried to upgrade it on some of my boxes, but `make oldconfig` doesn’t want to use my old config: Here is my make output: https://paste.swordarmor.fr/raw/2rRh And here is my config: https://paste.swordarmor.fr/raw/YHaG Does anyone else has to redo