Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

[Eric S. Raymond]

[e-mail] <[e-mail]>:
> It's not the CML1 language spec that interests me, just the user
> interface.  All I care about is being able to do make menuconfig and
> make oldconfig, and get the same results as before.  What goes on
> "under the surface" doesn't interest me at all.
> 
> In fact, here's all I want to know about the whole CML2/kbuild 2.5
> issue.  Right now I upgrade my kernel like this (simplified
> slightly):
> 
> <apply latest patches>
> mv .config ..
> make mrproper
> mv ../.config .
> make oldconfig
> make dep
> make bzlilo modules modules_install
> <reboot>
> 
> Will I still be able to do it this simply in 2.5.x?  (Assuming there's
> eventually a 2.5.x I can get to compile cleanly.  :-)

Yes.
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