On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Aiolia Lea wrote: > >> Hi, rday >> >> Perfect job~~ It is really a nice course! > > thanks. although you've seen only two lessons so far. :-) > >> And I have a little comments, consider this scenario: >> >> As a kernel beginner (like me), sometimes, I just want to rebuild >> part of the kernel, reather than the whole kernel tree. How could we >> do? Such as, we just modified one line of code or one function, do >> we still need to rebuild the whole kernel? After all, rebuild the >> whole kernel will cost more times. > > i notice that someone else has already answered this -- just make > your changes and type "make". the kernel build infrastructure will > take care of recompiling only what it has to. > Does ccache affect the kernel build behavior? > >> Could you add some kernel development environment setup topics for >> the above scenario. To be honsest, I am really want to know, the >> engineer in redhat, suse, how does he do in the reallife >> development? If he focus on one feature, such as MM or scheduler, >> does he also need to recompile the whole kernel when he make a >> little change? Especially he just want to clarify a little idea. > > see above. don't try to be fancy, just type "make". you'll learn > more further into the course when i cover writing and loading your own > modules, which is typically how testing is done. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses: > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== -- Shaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
