From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261896AbTIFWdY (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:33:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261898AbTIFWdY (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:33:24 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:50306 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261896AbTIFWdW (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 18:33:22 -0400 Message-ID: <33384.4.4.25.4.1062887601.squirrel@www.osdl.org> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: 2.6: spurious recompiles From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: In-Reply-To: <20030906201417.GI14436@fs.tum.de> References: <20030906201417.GI14436@fs.tum.de> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > When doing a "make" inside an already compiled kernel source there > shouldn't be anything rebuilt. I've identified three places where this > isn't the case in recent 2.6 kernels: > > 1. ikconfig > CC kernel/configs.o > even when the .config wasn't changed This is probably the same thing that Steve Hemminger posted about yesterday: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106270067411137&w=2 I posted a patch based on Sam Ravnborg's comments that might fix it, but I haven't verified it yet... The patch is in this message: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106272687506379&w=2 or it may be some other dependency. I'll look into it. Thanks, ~Randy