On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:15:20 +0530, Arun M Kumar said:
Is it OK to use same .config file on different machines.
As long as the .config includes all the moduled needed for all the machines in question. That's basically what a distro kernel does - include all the drivers for all supported hardware, and that's why a distro will usually boot on damn near anything.
I had a Dell Optiplex running OpenSuSE 11.3, KV: 2.6.32 for development purpose during my college days, can i use the same config file now on KV: 3.9.10
You really want to do a 'make oldconfig' to update it for all the config variables that got added/changed between .32 and 3.9.
The command $ make -j 8 completed sucessfully but
#make modules_install
gives the following error
------------------------------------------------------------- ln: target Drivers/source is not a directory
That looks suspiciously like in fact the build did *not* complete successfully. If you do a *second* 'make' - does it attempt to rebuild anything? Often an error message will scroll away un-noticed.; And I'm not sure where it got 'Drivers/source' from, that sounds like a busted build or install environment. You didn't have any M= or O= variables that you didn't tell us about, did you?