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. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
