right... I misunderstood the Qs and gave wrong information. Sorry for this and thanks for the clarification... On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 Jan Hudec wrote : >On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:27:43 -0000, matrix reloaded wrote: > > i think that if you do "make oldconfig" in the source for kernel, you can get the > > .config of the current kernel. > >FALSE! > >make oldconfig will take .config, asks you just the questions that are >in kernel config, but not answered in .config and creates the >autoconf.h. It is used in two situations: > >1) You have patched the kernel for new version, know the .config file is > reasonable for you and just need to update it for the new kernel. >2) You have saved away .config, made prproper or distclean and want to > use the config again. > >It does not do anything with the running kernel. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
