linux-kernel - Re: possible build system oddity

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708312250130.9413@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:50:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible build system oddity


On Aug 31 2007 11:00, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu 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
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