Re: Need Suggestion(modifying kernel source)

From: Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 16:53:05 EST


On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:44:00PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO En cette soir?e bien amorc?e du lundi 04 mars 2002, vers 22:23,
> chiranjeevi vaka <cvaka_kernel@yahoo.com> disait:
>
> > The major problem I am getting is, as and when I do a
> > small change, to test that change, I have to compile
> > the whole kernel make boot floppy and reboot the
> > kernel with that floppy and test the code. This way is
> > takinbg too much time. I donno how linux kernel
> > developers will make changes to kernel and test them.
>
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net

Also, you should be able to compile again without "make clean" to only
compile the changed C files and link. This is possible with kbuild2.4, but
kbuild2.5 should take out the trickyness.

Can someone point out the procedure for kbuild2.4?
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