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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: sai narasimhamurthy <sai_narasi@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: source changes without kernel re-compiling
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is it possible to avoid even system reboots? 
(someway to make ordinary source files like tcp.c work
like modules, that is)
thanks,
Sai



--- "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, sai narasimhamurthy wrote:
> 
> > Hi ,
> > I am working with the Linux networking source code
> for
> > the first time.
> > I am working with the file tcp.c in
> > /usr/src/linux/net/ipv4 . Everytime I make a small
> > change, I recompile the kernel. Is there any way
> to
> > get the changes in tcp.c (or any file in /ipv4 ,
> for
> > that matter) reflected without kernel
> re-compiling, so
> > that it saves time?
> > Sai
> >
> 
> You modify the source, then you return to the
> top-level
> directory and execute `make bzImage` or `make
> modules`
> if you are modifying a module. Only the file(s) that
> you modify will get compiled. The final link, of
> course,
> gets done. But that's only a second or two.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine
> (5557.45 BogoMips).
>             Note 96.31% of all statistics are
> fiction.
> 
> 
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