if you are writing something in the kernel sources then there is no way out. you have to recompile the entire kernel all over agin. well i dont exactly know wht you are doing but i suggest you bypass interrupt 0x80 with your own function and then call the normal isr from your function (something like writing your tsr routine in dos). maybe then your job will be done with just one kernel compilation. Or if you could write a kenel module doing the same then you wouldnt even need to compile the kernel. regards nix On Tuesday 04 November 2003 00:17, Manu Anand wrote: > Hi Gang > > Sorry upfront if the question is too trivial.. > I am trying to understand syscalls by adding some > debug statements in the code. Hardly elegent(I know). > What I wanted to know was that do I need to do > "make bzImage" every time after I touch even one of the file? > There must be some quicker way. Pls also note that I am not > fiddling with the modules and as such am not doing > "make modules" and "make modules_install" afterwards. > > TIA > -Manu -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/