On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:44:23AM -0700, Ravi wrote: > > > I have a question. How to clean after patching new kernel version? > > When I do just make clean, sometimes broken dependencies result. If i > > > make mrproper, it removes .config, which I really want to keep. > > > Save the .config, run 'make mrproper' and restore .config :) > It is always better to reconfigure the kernel options after patching. > New options may be added, or some others may be removed. So use your > old .config as the template and update the configuration. But that's what make oldconfig is for. And it needs the old .config of course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
