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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Vincent Bernat <bernat@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Need Suggestion(modifying kernel source)
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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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