Re: 2.6.17-rc4 mucked .config

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Fri May 12 2006 - 01:49:47 EST


On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:02:26PM -0700, Joshua Hudson wrote:
> Imported .config from 2.6.16.1
> ran "make" to prompt for fill in new values
>
> Found it automatically set on USB storage driver, some sound driver,
> and "Video for Linux".
> Possibly also the parallel port, or maybe that was already on.
> Didn't prompt for any of these
>
> Noticed after kernel was some 500k larger than expected.

Why did not you do "make oldconfig" in the first place ? This is the
only way to migrate your .config from one kernel to another, as it
will ask questions only for unknown (=new) values.

Willy

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