On 2010-03-10 9:09 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Whatever the guide says, the third part of the kernel version is > considered the minor revision, anything after that is a patch level.
Gotcha - and I guess I was using those terms in my own way - the guide didn't use the word major or minor - I just added that to distinguish between the two cases... > I see what you mean about the guide and consider it wrong, especially > for an advanced section. You are more likely to run into problems > when not reusing your old config that when using make oldconfig. But... my understanding is that, by copying your old .config to the new kernel dir before running make menuconfig, you *are* reusing your old config... I sure hope I'm not reading *that* wrong. ;) > Even the comment about context isn't really true, as oldconfig shows > some context and the same help that menuconfig does. Ok... well, this is how I've always done it, and I'm comfortable with it, so don't see a reason to change. Maybe I'll try running make oldconfig one day just to see how it differs... Anyway, thanks for the info. Lastly - since the guide *is* a part of the formal/official gentoo docs, maybe one of you who understands the kernel update process should file a bug to update it with better information? -- Charles
