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From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
Cc: Kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	Amit Kumar <free.amit.kumar@gmail.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	"Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Subject: Re: [OSSNA] Intro to kernel hacking tutorial
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:08:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <490137.1567433334@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxRZqyBgDEiZaK5At2RoCHPNquRA6OWvFg2SU3TZ9hsqEs8rg@mail.gmail.com>


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On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:42:19 +0300, Anatoly Pugachev said:

> is it intentionally that you use
>
> yes "" | make oldconfig
>
> instead of
>
> make olddefconfig

They do something different.  'olddefconfig' just takes the platform or
architecture defconfig and updates it for any new CONFIG_* variables added
since the last time the defconfig was updated in the tree.

yes "" | make oldconfig  does the same updating for new CONFIG_* variables, but
starts with the most recent .config - which produces wildly different results
if the .config had previously been minimized by 'make localmodconfig' or other
similar techniques.


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-02 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-05  2:50 [OSSNA] Intro to kernel hacking tutorial Tobin C. Harding
2019-07-05  3:32 ` Amit Kumar
2019-07-05  5:10   ` Amit Kumar
2019-07-08 23:46     ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-07-05  7:48 ` loïc tourlonias
2019-07-19  9:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-07-22  9:29   ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-09-01  0:00     ` Amit Kumar
2019-09-02  1:51       ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-09-02  6:29         ` Amit Kumar
2019-09-02 12:42         ` Anatoly Pugachev
2019-09-02 14:08           ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]
2019-09-03  1:49             ` Tobin C. Harding
2019-09-04  9:55             ` Anatoly Pugachev

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