Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: vt6656: replace memcpy by ether_addr_copy

[Aya Mahfouz <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 09:53:06AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2015 07:53:49 Aya Mahfouz wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 06:45:35AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > > It's usually just easiest to build the whole tree, you can do it quicker
> > > > > by doing:
> > > > >   make -j16
> > > > >
> > > > > replace the number with 2x the number of cpus you have, and you should
> > > > > be fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > good luck,
> > > > >
> > > > > greg k-h
> > > >
> > > > ok, Thanks!
> > > 
> > > I guess that the problem would have been seen by just compiling make
> > > foo/bar/file.o?
> > > 
> > Yup! works for me and my poor old CPU  Thanks!
> 
> It's also what I normally do, or for the whole directory
> 
> make foo/bar/
> 
> which will build all files that are turned on in the configuration.
> Using 'make foo/bar/file.o' will try to build that one file even
> if it is disabled in the configuration, which may or may not be what
> you want. The advantage is that you don't have to figure out how
> to enable it, but the downside is that it may fail to build in your
> current configuration because of some other configuration option
> rather than something you did.
>
Thanks Arnd! Yeah, I usually see that some symbols cannot be enabled
unless their dependencies are enabled too.
> 	Arnd

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Kind Regards,
Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz