On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 07:37:45PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 16:07:19 -0600, > Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >I am getting near the end of a kernel bisect and the changes are > >pretty localized and suspect that I really don't need to do make > >clean between builds which would really speed things up. Is there > >a guideline on when it is safe to skip make clean? > > So far what I have found, is that to be bullet proof you should use > make mrproper (which does more than make clean) and then rebuild > your desired config file again. But that you can skip make clean > (and make mrproper) in most cases. Yes. I normally don't do either make clean or make mrproper during a bisect. Perhaps if I'm crossing a major revision boundary (e.g. the bisect takes me from v3.18 to v3.17-rc4) I'll do a make clean, but otherwise I avoid it. I've never done an mrproper as it seems too easy to make a mistake while doing the reconfig. I just let Kconfig ask me the relevant questions during each build. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
