Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:50:25 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: USB Keyboards with recent 2.4.19-pre/rcXX and 2.5.2X |
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:46:37PM +0200, Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:19AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > You _did_ run 'make oldconfig' when upgrading kernel versions, right? > > > Uhm, no. What does that do? Never heard of it before... > > > > EVERY TIME you move a different .config file from a different kernel > > version you HAVE to run 'make oldconfig' to fix up the differences. > > This means everytime you upgrade your kernel version, you have to do it > > before rebuilding the kernel. > > Well, actually I usually do go through the kernel in menuconfig and set > all the options by hand. But I didn't consider that kernel option to be > important for actually using the keyboard and mouse, because so far it > had worked without this new option. And it didn't really scream for any > attention whatsoever. So it got ignored. Happened to some of my friends > too :). Maybe rename it to something that grabs your attention before > .19 gets released :)
Nope, that's what 'make oldconfig' is there for. That combined with reading the help entry for the new config items would have told you that this was a necessary thing for you to enable.
thanks,
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