Somehow exporting too many variables completely confuses the kernel's Makefiles into trying to calculate the size of every file in a very slow shell script ... this is causing EXTREME build slowdowns for me. These two patches fix it. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html