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Ulrich Windl said:
>
> "make oldconfig" seems to fail to work.
>
> I was upgrading from 1.3.68 to 1.3.70. I did "make mrproper", patched

"make mrproper" removes your old config!

> the sources, did "make oldconfig". No questions were asked, the

you will recreate the defaults (linus') oldconfig!

> process completed, but finally the configuration had almost nothing
> to do with the previous one.
> I also noted "NEW" suffixes since 1.3.68 when doing the usual "make
> config". I don't know why that suffix appeared.
> I thought "make oldconfig" should ask for all previously unasked
> questions.

it does, if the NEW options are not in .config, which you removed with
make mrproper.

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Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>


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