Compiling kernel sources that come with Slackware
 

I want to compile a kernel to add a few options that are not enabled in the huge-smp-2.6.29.6 that comes with slackware. specifically, i want to add TASK_DELAY_ACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING so that I can use iotop.

I just want to add those 2 options to the new kernel, everything else I'd like to keep the way it is as the system has been running just fine. Will running 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux default to the options that are used in the stock kernel?

if you copy the /boot/config (should be a symlink to your running kernel config) to /usr/src/linux/.config then run "make oldconfig"

After that you can run "make menuconfig" and proceed as normal.

Just an FYI. Another way to get the config of the running kernel is to do

zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/src/linux/.config

Regards,

DL

Excellent. Thanks.