new kernels & rebooting

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Heinz Diehl <htd at fritha.org> wrote:
> On 21.07.2014, poma wrote:
>
>> Your expertise with kernel would be very welcome for the Fedora kernel also,
>> when you offer Heinz. ;)
>
> Here's what I'm doing (and what I basically have been doing in many years):
>
> 1. Download a kernel from kernel.org
> 2. Extract it into /usr/src
> 3. Apply some minor patches
> 4. Copy my .config into the kernel sourcetree (alternatively "make
>    config", "make menuconfig" or thelike - in this case, you can of
>    course omit 5.)
> 5. make oldconfig
> 5. make -j4
> 5. make modules_install
> 6. make install
> 7. reboot

You'd be better off replacing the second step 5 by "make rpm-pkg" and
the last step 5 and step 6 by "rpm -i ...".