On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:06 PM Pascal via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > it's necessary to recompile completely even if the kernel I'm using is the > same as the one I want to apply a small modification on ? > Yes. The only small consolation is that once you compile it once and have a source tree that has been fully built on your system, further small changes and re-compiles will go much faster because it will figure out _some_ of the things it doesn't need to do again. I the case of the kernel, it still won't be fast. Caleb