From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964937AbXA3AWU (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:22:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965085AbXA3AWU (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:22:20 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49685 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964937AbXA3AWS (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:22:18 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ben Pfaff Subject: slow module build--what am I doing wrong? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:22:26 -0800 Message-ID: <87ps8xicsd.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> Reply-To: blp@cs.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-7-50-23.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:59ddnJJOiCBET91XsNWb55lK5MI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When I modify a source file or two that belong to a particular module, and then rebuild just that module with "make dir1/dir/module.ko" (e.g.), the build system spends a couple of minutes grinding away on "MODPOST" operations. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to avoid this? It slows down my build-and-test cycle quite a bit. Thanks! -- Ben Pfaff blp@cs.stanford.edu http://benpfaff.org