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