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SubjectRe: Size of kernel modules
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:51:24PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 06/06/07, Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@cs.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have a machine here which I installed with Ubuntu 7.04. Immediately
> >after the installation had been finished, I installed the Ubuntu package
> >which contains the Ubuntu-modified sources of the linux kernel. I
> >extracted the resulting tar.bz2-file, copied the configuration of the
> >currently running kernel to .config and created a file localversion-irb
> >which contains the line "-irb" and then called "make menuconfig".
>
> You forgot "make oldconfig". When you copy in a .config file from a
> different kernel, always do oldconfig (just get in the habbit, if the
> .config from the same kernel it's harmless).
Christoph used menuconfig so his configuration was perfectly OK and
oldconfig would not have changed anything.

Sam
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