Why exactly would you do this? Just because of saving time? If you do not clean kernel dir, it will compile very fast.
On 11/08/2012 07:02 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 06:55:31PM +0100, "ifj. Stefán István" > wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I have a quite good kernel, but today I realised that I need a >> kernel module that hadn't been compiled before. Is there any way >> to compile only that new module, and not compiling the whole >> kernel and all of the modules again? >> >> Thanks, István > > make nconfig (or menuconfig or whatever-config) select M for the > module exit and save make && make modules_install will put the > module into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ then you can "modprobe > <symbol for module>" and it will be in use. > > You should go ahead and install that new kernel and edit your > bootloader as needed. > > Bruce >
