Bug 156551

Summary: make oldconfig refuses to update config, instead prompts for every option on command line
Product: Other Reporter: Cristiano (cristiano)
Component: OtherAssignee: other_other
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 4.7.3 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description Cristiano 2016-09-12 07:55:03 UTC 
I just downloaded the 4.7.3 kernel and tried to import the 4.7.2 settings with the command "make oldconfig ../linux-4.7.2/.config". This doesn't work with the 4.7.3 version kernel, or at least not as I expect. I expect it to update the 4.7.3 configuration using the values in the config file specified. Instead I think it runs "make config", prompting for input of every single value on the command line.

I'm not entirely certain the behaviour I expected is what was intended, for I'm fairly new at compiling kernels. It did however work with the 4.7.2 version, and now not anymore.