Re: How to speed up building of modules?

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@gams.at>]

Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> wrote:
>With all the distributions, and differnent
>offerings of distributions, and errata kernels... today, I count
>almost 40 distinct kernels we're trying to support, not counting the
>mainline development on kernel.org, and not counting multiple
>config file variations for each of those 40 or so kernels.
>
>The main catch seems to be the symbol checksums.  In order for those
>to match (and I'm not too interested in subverting those), the 
>config files used during the compile need to be very similar.  That 
>means building lots and lots of modules.  (Think about all the 
>modules which are enabled in redhat's typical default config files.)
>This takes time.  Mulitply 3 drivers * ~40 kernels * several config
>files, and pretty soon... well, pretty soon you don't remember
>what "preety soon" means.
[...]
>Any ideas?

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	Bernd
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