On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:19:59PM +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > This one is sort of nasty, I'm not one of those who gets upset when he
> > needs to attach a serial console, but it would still be nice to avoid,
> > as the majority of users is apparently not always ready for
> > that. Should I file a bug report?
> 
> Rebuilding the kernel each time a patch changes would really harm the kernel 
> development workflow with OpenWrt, so I would rather stick with this even 
> though this may be confusing. Rebuilding each and every single time a patch 
> is 
> touched could really make you waste WIP work in build_dir/target*

I see your point here. But how should an end-user ever know that he
needs to explicitly rebuild the kernel after some particular "git
pull"? I'd say it's a common expectation that "git pull; make
oldconfig; make" should provide a consistent build of the current
version.

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