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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Anil Nair <anilcoll90@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need of automatic scripts for beginners
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:44:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120615034410.GA6380@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHkwNTnsVW6psWORXAEWVeQ+-ZQauY43SbE0P+be3FQD61PaOA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:06:00AM +0530, Anil Nair wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There are lot of professionals who join in the Linux Community daily,
> But there are also people who are new to kernel configuration and
> compiling so is it possible for the community to create a automatic
> bash script so that it would be useful for beginners to start with the
> kernel compilation and installation.? I could give it a try i want
> people from the community to test it for me. Such a script exists in
> the source tree?
> 
>  Suggestions required... (And expected :) )

Try doing:
	make localmodconfig
	make oldconfig
	make -j4
	make modules_install install

then reboot.

If your distro is set up properly, that should be all that you need to
do.

If not, do 'make help' and look at what you have there.

good luck,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-15  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-15  3:36 Need of automatic scripts for beginners Anil Nair
2012-06-15  3:44 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-06-15 10:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 17:09     ` Anil Nair
2012-06-15 17:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 17:50         ` Anil Nair
2012-06-15 17:54           ` Greg KH

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