Re: [patch] 2.4.11-pre4 remove spurious kernel recompiles

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <23246.1002450342@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> kaos@ocs.com.au wrote:

| This patch removes the dependency on the top level Makefile and
| seperates UTS_RELEASE from LINUX_VERSION_CODE.  Changing the top level
| Makefile no longer forces a complete recompile.  Changing EXTRAVERSION
| only affects a few files.  Changing VERSION, PATCHLEVEL or SUBLEVEL
| still does a major recompile, no way around that because of the number
| of places that test LINUX_VERSION_CODE and modules that need the kernel
| version string.

  I'll let comments accumulate on this, but it seems to offer hope that
patching a few modules and changing the EXTRAVERSION so they go in their
own directory will not blow off eight minutes of time to recompile.
That's nice, assuming it works.

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