Rebuilding parts of the 2.6 kernel tree

Often times easier than recompiling the whole kernel, when only a single module needs to be rebuild inside the tree. Of course, you need to keep your source tree around and dirty.

faith:/usr/src/linux-2.6.9/net/sched# make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.9 SUBDIR=`pwd` modules
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  CC [M]  net/sched/sch_sfq.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
  LD [M]  net/sched/sch_sfq.ko
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9'
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