On 11-Apr-99 Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: > >> I think that if you use make menuconfig or make xconfig, it 'remembers' >> what you had the last time you ran it. Thus you only have to set the >> options that you want to change. >> HTH >> Rich > But menuconfig (and xconfig) at the end suggests to do 'make dep; make > clean'. So when finally you type 'make bzimage' it will remake the WHOLE > kernel. I think, that the question was, if it is possible to build only > the new module without the time consuming recompilation of the whole > kernel...
Sort of. I wanted to know if I could skip over the part where I have to answer all the questions. I did not mind having to do the remainder of the steps. > I don't know if it is possible. Whenever I changed my kernel/modules > configuration I recompiled everything, just for the safety reason. > Only when I recompiled an additional module, not belonging to the official > kernel source (e.g. my own device driver), I dared to rebuild the module > alone. menuconfig did not do this for me, so I answered all the questions again. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]