Re: installing only the newly (re)built modules

From: Tilman Schmidt
Date: Thu Jan 11 2007 - 05:24:50 EST


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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