Re: Support for building individual .ko's would be nice :-)

From: Marc Singer (elf_at_buici.com)
Date: 04/20/04

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    Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:16:03 -0700
To: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>

    On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:59:04PM +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
    > I was told you're the man to bug about this :-)
    >
    > Having a slow box, a vendor kernel (+ kernel-source package with config
    > for it) and a need to modify one line of a module, recompile it,
    > replace existing module with it and continue business as usual
    > made me notice kbuild doesn't seem to have a facility for this.
    >
    > What would be nice is (say)
    >
    > cp configs/xxx-i686.config .config
    > emacs drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ves1820.c
    > make drivers/media/dvb/frontends/ves1820.ko
    > cp ves1820.ko /lib/modules/...
    > rmmod ves1820; modprobe ves1820
    >
    > Or am I missing something obvious that let me get just that one .ko
    > without recompiling just about everything? (.o is easy, but that's
    > not very useful :-) )

    If you leave the compiled tree intact, all you need to do is modify
    the one source file and then "make modules". You'll wait a while the
    first time, but successive builds will be minimal.

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