From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Elias Athanasopoulos Subject: Re: about upgrading the kernel. Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:30:01 +0300 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030428193001.A31941@neutrino.particles.org> References: <20030427172040.GA6928@storm.armateknik.com.tr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030427172040.GA6928@storm.armateknik.com.tr>; from halil@debian-tr.org on Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:20:40PM +0300 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Halil Demirezen Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:20:40PM +0300, Halil Demirezen wrote: > I want to know, as the new patches and upgrades are published for the kernel, do i have to re-compile the > whole kernel after i pached it? or is there any easy way of doing it so? Make (if the Makefile is correctly written) is quite clever to resolve any depedencies and compile only the changed sources; as well as sources depend on the changes. This is done automagically. You just patch the sources and perform a 'make'. OTOH, if you encounter strange bahaviour in the fresh kerenl, a 'make clean; make' won't hurt to try. Elias -- University of Athens I bet the human brain Physics Department is a kludge --Marvin Minsky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs