[ale] Kernel problem

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim Philips)]

On Saturday 20 April 2002 12:27 pm, David Corbin wrote:
> >Once you do "make oldconfig", you _still_ need to do make [x|menu]config
> >as sometimes things do change that need manual intervention.
>
> Since when?  Is that documented somewhere?  Can elaborate on this
> comment about things needing "manual intervention"?

New config options get added to the kernel all the time. So, your saved config 
options are very likely to be missing a few options in that shiny new kernel 
you're installing. Thus, you need "manual intervention" to either install 
support for those things or leave them out. 

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