modules and amke in 2.0.31pre9

Ulrich Windl (ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:14:02 +0200


I have three modules (serial, sound, sg) defined. I noticed that
after a change in serial.c all my modules are recompiled. Quite
surprising.

I have versioned symbols for modules enabled (if that makes any
difference).

When I changed time.c the following files were recompiled:

floppy.c
misc.c
psaux.c scsi/hosts.c (and many more)
net/netsyms.c
kernel/ksyms.c
fs/binfmt_elf.c (plus a.out and script)
ext2/super.c
fat/inode.c
...
proc/procfs_syms
isofs/inode.c
hpfs/hpfs_fs.c

Is there something to be done? IMHO this makes modules rather useless
to speed development...

Ulrich