Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965138AbXAJWCM (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:02:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965140AbXAJWCM (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:02:12 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.228]:36727 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965138AbXAJWCL (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:02:11 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jHAhXlRjqgqegTWf8dTyfBbvSYDB2BfzL2faylvexomylFQ3QGnJlC7+aQKjmgD3nQ+lD2WMCIo931oOqazsdMNKH94Uul1UQsrB+yJcF5MxT8VlPjc3/2OltyCXl4fBW/SKHiDm5cEibYbzoIgDaaSfn+X0AgSfuCPAPi1GHP0= Message-ID: <7c737f300701101402q21ee4a8dr1ef32771d8cd78a2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:02:09 -0800 From: "Alexy Khrabrov" To: "Bill Davidsen" Subject: Re: installing only the newly (re)built modules Cc: "Linux Kernel mailing List" In-Reply-To: <45A5609C.1000308@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7c737f300701082029i1ce9f7d8oc67cb3339c9c2856@mail.gmail.com> <45A5609C.1000308@tmr.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 29 Well, fast -- it depends! :) My Crusoe tablet, Compaq TC1000, can use any break it gets... And generally, the beauty of a make system is not to do any extra moves. Since it already knows what to build, why not let it install just that? Cheers, Alexy On 1/10/07, Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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. > > -- > bill davidsen > CTO TMR Associates, Inc > Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 > - 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/