Compile kernel only + bonding driver

[takase1121]

I am experimenting with interface bonding with OrangePi zero 2, to bridge WLAN and LAN. The current driver does not provide the bonding driver, and compiling the driver from source (Kernel 6.6.2 from kernel.org) causes the system to hang when the driver is actually used (configured by networkctl).I attempted to build minimyth2, but it takes too long and errored halfway through.

Because of these issues, I could not verify whether the driver works with my hardware. I hope you could enable it in Kconfig as a module, so we can load it. Maybe you've disabled it because it didn't work, in that case I'd like to know too.

[takase1121]

As an extension of this, is there a way to compile only the kernel? I would like to make some customization to it but currently it would involve compiling GCC and everything.