Rakesh, Please use the following script for touching all the files in the kernel souce folder :- "sumtouch.sh" #!/bin/bash printf "Script to touch all the files ercursuively...\n" find . -name "*" >& ./Output for input in `cat ./Output`; do touch $input done You could have done it with $ touch `ls -R` also, but it cries because of very long list returned by ls -R for kernel source, so you'll have to use "sumtouch.sh" only for you case. Just copy this into a file and name it anything. Then do chmod 766 for that and run. After running this things will go fine. Generally kernel make process doesn't work if the files present in the source are having time-stamp > current time of the running system. Running this script will modify the time-stamp of all the files. Let me know if this helps. Thanks. Sumit Sharma, IBM, Bangalore. On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 Rakesh Jagota wrote : >Hi, > >When I am trying to do make clean, its not coming out, its keep on cleaning >and not stopping at all. What can be the problem and how cabn i rectify >this. I used the touch command in the compilation folder like this: > >touch -t 200410010517 CCYYMMDDHHMM > > >Thanks in advance, >rakesh