Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262396AbUKDUL6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:11:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262381AbUKDULX (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:11:23 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:20159 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262397AbUKDUIv (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:08:51 -0500 Message-Id: <200411042008.iA4K8Sie017409@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.1 10/11/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Ian Hastie Cc: Adam Heath , Chris Wedgwood , Christoph Hellwig , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:36:26 GMT." <200411041936.27100.ianh@iahastie.local.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> <200411041704.iA4H4sdZ014948@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <200411041936.27100.ianh@iahastie.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-2001691947P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:08:28 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1138 Lines: 33 --==_Exmh_-2001691947P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:36:26 GMT, Ian Hastie said: > How often is it necessary to do a full rebuild of the kernel? If the > dependencies in the make system work properly then only the amended parts > should be recompiled. That'd be a much bigger time saving than just using an > older compiler. Touch the wrong .h file, and 95% of the world still gets rebuilt. Similarly, change the wrong CONFIG_ variable and thus the size/layout of a critical structure, and watch 95% of the world still get rebuilt. --==_Exmh_-2001691947P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFBiow7cC3lWbTT17ARAiNVAKCHd5a6vJzNCfQxT9/UXuhj2YBqBwCcDoPW 5j3ebktbNAYA1iFerfEZ/sM= =KZkX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-2001691947P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/