Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:18:14 -0700 | From | Frank Rowand <> | Subject | Re: [Patch v3 1/3] dt: OF_UNITTEST make dependency broken, framework fixes |
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On 3/13/2015 6:13 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote: >> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sonymobile.com> >> >> This 3 patch series is not bisectable. If CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST=y then the kernel >> will not build with just patch 1 or just patches 1 and 2 applied. > > If you did 2 patches with the move first, wouldn't that make it > bisectable. However, I'd rather avoid the move.
Yes, I did not like the move either. Fortunately you gave me the cluebat I needed to avoid the move.
> >> If CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST=y then a kernel image make will always cause .version to >> be incremented, even if there are not source changes. This is caused by >> a lack of dependency tracking and checking for >> drivers/of/unittest-data/testcases.dtb.o. Fixing the problem was made more >> complicated by the fact that testcases.dtb.o was linked into ../of_unittest.o. > > Couldn't we change that to be 2 modules.
Thanks, that was just the hint I needed to realize that of_unittest.o was just an artifact of the problem I was trying to solve. I will send a new patch that removes the of_unittest.o cruft and does not need to move unittest.c
> >> Patch 1 modifies makefiles to move of_unittest.c into unittest-data/ and >> creates missing dependency tracking for testcases.dtb.o. >> >> Patch 2 will move of_unittest.c into unittest-data/ >> >> Patch 3 will fix an of_unittest.c include path to account for the move. > > This should all be in an intro email, not patch #1.
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