diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fe00207..5562ec5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  27 Dec 2007; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> genkernel.8:
+  fix description of --kernel-config for bug 194752
+
   27 Dec 2007; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> genkernel:
   This is 3.4.9_pre12 for testing.
 
diff --git a/genkernel.8 b/genkernel.8
index 6daec21..66e9cc0 100644
--- a/genkernel.8
+++ b/genkernel.8
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ This specifies the location of the kernel sources; the default is
 .TP
 \fB\-\-kernel\-config=\fR<file>
 This specifies a kernel configuration file to use for compilation; by
-default .config in the kernel source tree is used.
+default genkernel uses the config from the previous build of the same kernel
+version or a default kernel config if there isn't a previous config.
 .PP
 .BR Low-Level \ Compilation \ Options
 .TP