Re: OT? kernel configuration guessing

["Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-06-16, Joris Huizer penned:
> Hello,
>
> I find myself often just reusing my configuration endlessly, which is
> probably not the smarted configuration anymore; In the transition from
> 2.4.x to 2.6 some configurations went away but still.. is there a some
> kind of script or something to make the kernel "guess" the minimal &
> best kernel configuration for the running machine?
>
> This is far from urgent ofcourse, but.. well it would be interesting
> to hear what's available for this, andwhat could be learned from tools
> to discover hardware details :-)
>

Have you ever copied your old .config file over and used "make
oldconfig"?

(I don't know if this works 2.4->2.6, though)

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monique