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Atilla Filiz
Atilla Filiz

Reputation: 2432

Messing with hand-edited kernel config

Some of my coworkers edit the kernel configs of our products manually. The comment or uncomment the options and manually put the 'y' or 'm'. Is it safe for me to load such configurations to menuconfig and friends? What can go wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1091

Answers (2)

Bandicoot
Bandicoot

Reputation: 3949

Yes, you can hand-edit the kernel configs in the config file. "make" takes care of any dependencies.

Upvotes: 1

wazoox
wazoox

Reputation: 1392

It's safe as long as you run make oldconfig or make menuconfig, etc. afterwards. "make" takes care of dependencies and activates as needed modules that have been mistakenly disabled.

Upvotes: 3

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