You can try installing ccache at http://ccache.samba.org/. It will definitely speeds up compiling of your kernel, even if it means compiling your trivial modifications. Hmm, an alternative way is to see if the syscalls you want to learn, are available as hooks in the LSM framework. If they are available, then you can simply write your customised debugging statements by implementing the required hooks. You can then simply compile your own LSM LKM instead of the entire kernel. Have fun. Eugene <quote sender="Manu Anand"> > 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/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
