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I was wondering if I need to
go through the entire kernel build process and boot from the modified kernel and
do some tests before sending this patch to kernel-janitor mailing list and the
relevant maintainers.

Hi Amit
If it were me I would compile and boot test this anyway (especially if
it's your first patch). But then I am a bit paranoid and
ultra-cautious ;-)

If you haven't done a make distclean or the like (ie all your files
and .config are still there from your last kernel build) it shouldn't
take as long, because you won't need to build the _whole_ kernel from
scratch, from a clean tree.

Cheers
Julie

Yeah, you are right. As this was my first clone of linux-next, hence I've to
spend sometime in configuration and then the whole kernel compilation. But later
I'd like to be able to just build that particular subsystem or the module.
Looking at the top level Makefile, it seems that I should be able to do so.

# cd linux-next
# make mm < --- should work, right ?

-Amit