Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

["S.Toms" <smotrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Paul Abrahams wrote:

pa> Sorry for the delay in responding -- I was away.
pa> 
pa> I believe that "make oldconfig" is provided by stock kernels from
pa> kernel.org, while "make cloneconfig" is provided by SuSE for SuSe-prepared
pa> kernels.    I don't know what the difference in behavior is, nor do I even
pa> know if you can use "make oldconfig" to switch from a SuSE kernel to a
pa> stock kernel, or "make cloneconfig" to switch from a stock kernel to a
pa> SuSE kernel.   Maybe somone else here knows.
pa> 

  Actually, 'make oldconfig' upgrades the kernels config file from a
previous kernel version to the current kernel version, ie upgrading from
kernel 2.2.18 to kernel 2.2.19 would require you to run 'make oldconfig'
so that any missing/modified config settings can be added/corrected to the
existing config file. Or you with 'make config/menuconfig/xconfig' you can
reconfigure from scratch thus creating a brandnew .config file.
  The SuSE prepared kernels come with the 'make cloneconfig' which will
recreate the .config file based on the current/last configured kernel 
created kernel, thus saving you considerable ammounts of time not having
to reconfigure the kernel configuration from scratch. This is useful if
you either accidentally deleted the .config file or made so many changes
that you don't remember what you did and want the original config file so
you can start over.


pa> 
pa> Paul
pa> 
pa> 

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