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From: mindrunner <kernel@ccube.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel compile only one new module
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:29:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509BFA0E.401@ccube.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121108180251.GK17663@server>

Why exactly would you do this? Just because of saving time?
If you do not clean kernel dir, it will compile very fast.

On 11/08/2012 07:02 PM, Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:55:31PM +0100, "ifj. Stefán István"
> wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have a quite good kernel, but today I realised that I need a
>> kernel module that hadn't been compiled before. Is there any way
>> to compile only that new module, and not compiling the whole
>> kernel and all of the modules again?
>>
>> Thanks, István
>
> make nconfig (or menuconfig or whatever-config) select M for the
> module exit and save make && make modules_install will put the
> module into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ then you can "modprobe
> <symbol for module>" and it will be in use.
>
> You should go ahead and install that new kernel and edit your
> bootloader as needed.
>
> Bruce
>


  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-08 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-08 17:55 [gentoo-user] genkernel compile only one new module "ifj. Stefán István"
2012-11-08 18:02 ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-08 18:29   ` mindrunner [this message]
2012-11-08 18:57 ` Mark David Dumlao

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