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From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Developing device-drivers without rebuilding the hole kernel
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> want to rebuild the whole kernel every time i add a few new lines or a

If you use config(8) to configure your kernel in the "traditional way",
this should come for free.

See:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html