[vdr] Re: Do I have to recompile after upgrading the kernel?

[Mario Dilleni <mad@whiskytrinker.de>]

At 13:44 09.05.2002, you wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2002 10:43 schrieb Mario Dilleni:
> > > > I have to upgrade my kernel from the standard 2.4.10 (SUSE 7.3) to
> > > > 2.4.16 because of problems with rp-pppoe. Do I have to
> > > > reinstall/recompile the dvb driver or the vdr software?
>
> > >Probably yes. Just try it out. For a beginner it's easier to rebuild the
> > > dvb driver than to build a kernel :-)
> >
> > Recompiling the kernel after reconfiguring is not the problem (thanks to
> > menuconfig), but I'll have to get a new kernel.
> >
> > But you are right, I'll just try and see what happens.
>
>Just copy the file ".config" of the kernel source tree to a safe place,
>install the new kernel, copy ".config" to that newly created source tree and
>start make menuconfig. You'll find all the previous settings again.

I've just installed the new kernel and everything went fine (loading the 
DVB driver initiated a recompilation of the driver, but that wasn't any 
problem).

So thanks to everybody who helped me!