Anyone with two AMDs?

[poma]

On 11.05.2015 23:25, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 12:44 +0200, poma wrote:
>>
>> Are you're trying to build the whole kernel to test only one module?
> 
> If he's using my approach, yes, he is. There's nothing fundamentally
> wrong with that. It takes a bit longer, but hey - there's lots of ways
> to pass time. I've usually found it more trouble than it's worth to
> isolate individual modules and rebuild them against an existing
> kernel, but as I said in my original mail, both approaches are
> perfectly valid.
> 

You do not want to build the whole kernel only to find out the patch actually has no effect.
Once you prove the patch really does have a positive effect, then you can go with the whole shebang.
This is a question of what you actually need, not what you can do. ;)