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From: mdean <mdean@best.com>
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Subject: Driver Development
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If I am changing a driver alot and want to quickly throw together a kernel
is it safe (in terms of dependencies) to change the .c file in source tree
then rerun make without doing a config first (assuming I haven't changed
the config file)?