Kernel config question

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:10:59 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net>
wrote:

> I'm a little hazy on some steps and what they do.  I know I need to issue
> 
> make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
> 
> when I do a new kernel (on a new system).  However, if I have an existing
> system where I just add an option via make menuconfig what steps do I
> really have to do?  I wouldn't think I'd have to reinstall modules.
> However, if I specify the option I added to be a module I assume I need to
> do modules AND modules_install?
> 

I would recommend you do bzImage modules and modules_install in every case. 
I confess that I've gotten spoiled on the 2.6 kernels where very little
additional work is done if you change a few config parameters and then remake,
but I presume the same applies for 2.4 kernels.

Let someone else jump in here.

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