[arch-general] kernel full compilation ?

Pascal patatetom at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 13:29:27 UTC 2020


yes, I've just recompiled and this second time was much faster !

to be more precise, here is the very small modification made to the file
mentioned above :

--- src/linux-5.4.23/block/blk-core.c 2020-02-28 17:22:29.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/blk-core.c 2020-03-03 14:25:56.049803851 +0100
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@
  "to read-only block-device %s (partno %d)\n",
  bio_devname(bio, b), part->partno);
  /* Older lvm-tools actually trigger this */
- return false;
+ return true;
  }

  return false;

Le mar. 3 mars 2020 à 14:19, Caleb Maclennan <caleb at alerque.com> a écrit :

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:06 PM Pascal via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> it's necessary to recompile completely even if the kernel I'm using is the
>> same as the one I want to apply a small modification on ?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> The only small consolation is that once you compile it once and have a
> source tree that has been fully built on your system, further small changes
> and re-compiles will go much faster because it will figure out _some_ of
> the things it doesn't need to do again. I the case of the kernel, it still
> won't be fast.
>
> Caleb
>


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