> Ulrich Windl said:
> >
> > "make oldconfig" seems to fail to work.
> >
> > I was upgrading from 1.3.68 to 1.3.70. I did "make mrproper", patched
>
> "make mrproper" removes your old config!
Is it a bug, or a feature? When then should "make oldconfig" be used?
If you just made "make clean", you won't need it? (Do you?)
What about "make newconfig"? "mrproper" would clean up anything else
taht won't be useful after applying a patch.
>
> > the sources, did "make oldconfig". No questions were asked, the
>
> you will recreate the defaults (linus') oldconfig!
>
> > process completed, but finally the configuration had almost nothing
> > to do with the previous one.
> > I also noted "NEW" suffixes since 1.3.68 when doing the usual "make
> > config". I don't know why that suffix appeared.
> > I thought "make oldconfig" should ask for all previously unasked
> > questions.
>
> it does, if the NEW options are not in .config, which you removed with
> make mrproper.
>
> --
> Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>
Ulrich