When do you have to do a 'make dep ; make clean'?

[Kirk Bauer]

I am wondering when it is necessary to do a 'make dep ; make clean'
for the Linux kernel.  If I change only one thing in 'make config'
do I really need to run 'make dep ; make clean' and wipe out all
the already-compiled object files?

Please respond directly to my email address as I am not on the
kernel list.

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