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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:50:25 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de
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Subject: Re: USB Keyboards with recent 2.4.19-pre/rcXX and 2.5.2X
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:46:37PM +0200, Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:19AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > You _did_ run 'make oldconfig' when upgrading kernel versions, right?
> > > Uhm, no. What does that do? Never heard of it before...
> > 
> > EVERY TIME you move a different .config file from a different kernel
> > version you HAVE to run 'make oldconfig' to fix up the differences.
> > This means everytime you upgrade your kernel version, you have to do it
> > before rebuilding the kernel.
> 
> Well, actually I usually do go through the kernel in menuconfig and set
> all the options by hand. But I didn't consider that kernel option to be
> important for actually using the keyboard and mouse, because so far it
> had worked without this new option. And it didn't really scream for any
> attention whatsoever. So it got ignored. Happened to some of my friends
> too :). Maybe rename it to something that grabs your attention before
> .19 gets released :)

Nope, that's what 'make oldconfig' is there for.  That combined with
reading the help entry for the new config items would have told you that
this was a necessary thing for you to enable.

thanks,

greg k-h
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