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SubjectRe: apparent loss of continuity in kernel .config?
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Hi Gene,

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> Attempting to go from 3.16.0 to 3.16.7 last night, a make oldconfig
> started from scratch as if there were no .config's in the directory. I
> stood on the enter key to take the defaults, then ran a make xconfig to
> discover it was totally wrong for an AMD phenom, no networking, no disc
> drivers, video was an old ATI, when there is an nvidia card in it, yadda,
> yadda.

Being someone who runs "make oldconfig" and compares .config.old and .config
all the time, I never saw this. However, those are almost never x86 oldconfigs.

Did it change from 64BIT=y to no or vice versa?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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