Re: OK to comment out 'SMP = 1' in Makefile for 2.1.11[789]?

Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de)
Sat, 29 Aug 98 09:28 MET DST


In article <19980828104645.A1915@bob.nhn.ou.edu> you write:
>I just recompiled 2.1.117 with 'SMP = 1' commented out in the top-level
>Makefile. There were many warnings about redefined symbols that resulted
>from this. On my single-processor machine, the 2.1.117 kernel runs fine
>with or without SMP configured. I was just wondering about all of the
>compiler warnings during the kernel and module build.

My guess is that you should do 'rm include/linux/modules/*' before
the compile...

>The kernel is a bit smaller without SMP, but are we encouraged to leave
>SMP in anyway?

Only if you need it.

hjb

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