From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-GM-THRID: 195205005312 X-Google-Groups: outreachy-kernel X-Google-Thread: 9ca63f596c,d9c8d97a359f39c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid9ca63f596c,domainid0,private,googlegroup X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Received: by 10.112.144.130 with SMTP id sm2mr1965827lbb.9.1425032588487; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:23:08 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.181.13.74 with SMTP id ew10ls86027wid.20.gmail; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:23:08 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.194.221.65 with SMTP id qc1mr1933755wjc.7.1425032588106; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:23:08 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-x234.google.com (mail-we0-x234.google.com. [2a00:1450:400c:c03::234]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o3si79709wib.2.2015.02.27.02.23.08 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:23:08 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c03::234 as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c03::234; Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c03::234 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Received: by mail-we0-x234.google.com with SMTP id x3so19059315wes.6 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:23:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=g1cVJa57+jnoU3d50IqZCJ38IOwNMq9xfhu0eBj3CKs=; b=wpu4puxIrysZqmMcdgaCkAbvOkmWt3aj2GYim5aK/ys+riPJTQlDolMhVqlfnMKwpc 78GxK+ODjV/yfrrM6XzX5wahIDPILanlaHam97JZ452jTJZKVtD7aiX7ImygXWnyCal0 MGL4wAjyQo0xe9NIJk0rMBDLUKpfIGL+P8Adnz1xg1gunHeGJmFhBlzQfkdvJCzT6UZr Fe657Z4jYI7QUmi0fux85fLsVl0iHyx8Y/4z5zQwwca+VQufeD2EDmT9CHZEUloyzetk Q/Cj0GvgLFkaZppai9MeumeC6tJx/ENliPYEdh2TUpSyJx4HhR3Gc4t1kdZhaZWZHd8i nj0Q== X-Received: by 10.194.177.195 with SMTP id cs3mr25436876wjc.141.1425032587991; Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:23:07 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from localhost.localdomain ([196.205.192.222]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id vq9sm5316234wjc.6.2015.02.27.02.23.06 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:23:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:23:02 +0200 From: Aya Mahfouz To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, Julia Lawall , Greg KH Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: vt6656: replace memcpy by ether_addr_copy Message-ID: <20150227102302.GB23336@waves> References: <20150217200055.GA11277@localhost.localdomain> <20150227055349.GA22452@waves> <2558044.p0KZ9zyzql@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2558044.p0KZ9zyzql@wuerfel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) 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 -- Kind Regards, Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz