On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Kelly Zytaruk <kzytaruk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am trying to trace a bug I have with some hardware and I am putting > printk() statements in iov.c > > > > Every time I make a change to the source file, I am building the entire > linux kernel, ie 'make' from top directory. > > While it is not complex, it is time consuming, it takes several minutes to > go through all of the dependencies and link all of the modules together. > > I spend a lot of time waiting. > > > > Am I doing this correctly or is there a short cut to do either of the > following; > > 1) Compile only iov.c to find coding syntax errors > > a. I tried running 'make' in the ./drivers/pci directory but it told > me that there were no targets. > > 2) Do the final build. > > a. Do I have to build the entire linux kernel or can I somehow > insert/replace the pci driver into an existing image. > Hi Kelly Something like the following works for me. But i am not sure this is the proper way to solve your problem. In the source tree; $ make drivers/pci/iov.o _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
