linux-kernel - Re: installing only the newly (re)built modules

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:24:15 +0100
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
CC:	Linux Kernel mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: installing only the newly (re)built modules

Bill Davidsen schrieb:
> Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
>> The 2.6 build system compiles only those modules whose config
>> changed.  However, the install still installs all modules.
>> 
>> Is there a way to entice make modules_install to install only those
>> new modules we've actually just changed/built?
> 
> Out of curiosity, why? I've noticed this, but the copy runs so fast I 
> never really thought about it as an issue.

Not here. On the 933 MHz P3 machine I use for driver development,
"make modules_install" takes so much time that I always copy my
modules by hand instead after recompiling them.

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Tilman Schmidt                    E-Mail: tilman@...p.cc
Bonn, Germany
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