Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:34:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:34:12 -0400 Received: from [213.4.129.129] ([213.4.129.129]:37614 "EHLO tsmtp2.mail.isp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:34:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 23:35:58 +0200 From: Diego Calleja To: Kai Germaschewski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: piggy broken in 2.5.24 build Message-Id: <20020622233558.441f7905.diegocg@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: References: <20020622225229.46805a91.diegocg@teleline.es> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 16 On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:08:45 -0500 (CDT) Kai Germaschewski escribi?: > Now, if you "make" again, all files which include/linux/modversions.h > need to be rebuilt, since it changed. And that's a lot of files, as > you've noticed. The problem is that in reality, only a file which also > *uses* one of these exported symbols really changes. But make cannot > know that, so it recompiles everything which is possibly affected. This has a lot of sense ;), thanks - 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/