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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:19:35 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: selva kumar <mailnselva@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: New System call & Kernel compilation
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:26:31AM -0800, selva kumar wrote:
> selva:
>   After adding a new system call, should we have to
> recompile the whole kernel? can anyone help me
> regarding this?

You do not need to do a 'make clean'. Simply executing make will suffer 
since kbuild has track of all dependencies.

Assuming 2.6 kernel!

	Sam