On Aug 31 2007 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> It seems you are confused by the fact that this recompilation results in >> several relinks (LD)? > >Or something else changed that he didn't realize. Just the other day, I >applied a one-line patch that hit one .c file, and *the entire kernel* >started rebuilding. > >Took me a while to figure out that I'd been looking for something else, and >done a 'vi Makefile' in the top level, and exited with 'ZZ' rather than ':q' ;)
Changing the top makefile (where your version info is) should only result in rebuilding the .mod.c, .mod.o and .ko files. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/