On Wednesday 03 June 2009 17:43:56 James Homuth wrote: > I noticed yesterday gentoo-sources-2.6.29 was released, and was wondering > if it's required that the kernel be upgraded
no > (I'm currently running 2.6.28. nothing wrong with that > I did download the sources (Should I have done that?), yes, it doesn't hurt. Not required, but good to have > but in the event > it's not mandatory or anything to upgrade the kernel I'd really like to not > have to recompile the thing. so don't. You only *have* to upgrade the kernel if you want some feature the current one in use does not support > Related, however, if I do recompile it and > decide to do so with genkernel, Yuck. I tell people to stay away from that thing. Just learn how to do it yourself. It's not hard, you get only what you want, and there are thousands of howtos all over the net > will it respect the settings I've compiled > into 2.6.28 or will they need to be reset again before 2.6.29 is compiled? No. Not unless you give it the old config to use. IIRC it has some feature to use the config for the currently running kernel (/proc/config.gz) if the running kernel supports it. But I could be may off course here too. > thanks for any information on the subject. You'll get MUCH better answers by reading the kernel compile guide in the docs section of gentoo.org. Your post implies that you have not read it, as all your questions are answered in it. Knowledgeable folks here will give you the same answers, so just read the doc instead... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
