From: Roger B. <ro...@ro...> - 2003-01-19 20:53:31
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> config.in? Don't you mean '.config'? Sorry, yes. > Why would you copy the .config in > from 2.4.19-5um to a more recent kernel, when you can get the default > configuration with 'make mrproper'? That was just an example. I do this all the time to update to a newer version of UML where I want the config to be the same as the earlier build. As an example, for a long time the UML default config didn't enable reiserfs but the rpm did have it as a module. This is the whole point behind make oldconfig. It will prompt for any new options that are now configurable, but not in your .config. (There is also make oldconfig_nonint which automatically picks the defaults). Roger |