Aug. 25, 2011
5:06 p.m.
well, previously you didn't mention about "make oldconfig", but then you said you did "make oldconfig". Which one is right?
It may be an inaccurate expression. 'make oldconfig' are next to Coping .config, and they are two steps. I mean I don't do them at all.
The only way "make oldconfig" find the old .config file is AFAIK by placing it in top source directory of extracted linux kernel.
When I invoking 'make oldconfig' withou a .config in /usr/src/linux , I get these messages: root [ /usr/src/linux ]# make oldconfig scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/x86/Kconfig # # using defaults found in /boot/config-2.6.34 # # # configuration written to .config # So, I think 'make' should get a copy of /boot/.config-2.6.34 into /usr/src/linux.