make oldconfig

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:22:04 +0100


"make oldconfig" seems to fail to work.

I was upgrading from 1.3.68 to 1.3.70. I did "make mrproper", patched
the sources, did "make oldconfig". No questions were asked, the
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.

Who can tell me?

Ulrich