linux-kernel - Re: Size of kernel modules

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:56:20 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
cc:	Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@...uni-dortmund.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Size of kernel modules


On Jun 6 2007 17:51, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 06/06/07, Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@...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).

oldconfig is automatically called AFAICS.


	Jan
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