On 6/8/20 10:15 AM, Shetu Ayalew wrote: > On 6/7/2020 5:46 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> On 6/1/20 11:19 AM, Shetu Ayalew wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to run the the gentree.py. >>> I use coccinelle 1.0.7 and the following tree - >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ >>> >>> with few different tags the last one was v5.7-rc3-1 (for backports >>> tree) and v5.7-rc3 (for the Linux tree). >>> >>> and I get error: >>> >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "./gentree.py", line 1107, in <module> >>> ret = _main() >>> File "./gentree.py", line 724, in _main >>> logwrite=logwrite) >>> File "./gentree.py", line 914, in process >>> kver = gen_version.kernelversion(bpid.project_dir) >>> File >>> "/.autodirect/swgwork/shetu/upstream/backports/lib/bpversion.py", >>> line 40, in kernelversion >>> _check(process) >>> File >>> "/.autodirect/swgwork/shetu/upstream/backports/lib/bpversion.py", >>> line 11, in _check >>> raise ExecutionError(process.returncode) >>> lib.bpversion.ExecutionError >>> >>> >>> To my understanding the source of the above error is the fail of the run >>> of the following command that the script executes: >>> >>> "make --no-print-directory -C /swgwork/shetu/upstream/backport_vr >>> kernelversion" >>> >>> The error I get is "you shouldn't run make in the backports tree, but >>> only in the generated output ...". >>> >>> But the directory backport_vr is not under the backports tree. Moreover >>> I tried running make kernelversion >>> >>> from backport_vr and I got the same error message. Do you familiar with >>> this probelm, any idea how to solve it ? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Shetu. >> Hi Shetu, >> >> The script tries to get the kernel version of the kernel you want to >> create a backports release for and this somehow fails. >> >> Could you please run this manually like I did here: >> >> $ make --no-print-directory -C ~/linux/linux-next kernelversion >> 5.7.0-rc3 >> $ echo $? >> 0 >> >> Please keep the mailing list in CC. >> >> Hauke >> > Hi, > > I did and got the same output as you. But it seems like the script is > not using the source tree path as in you asked me to do, rather it uses > the output tree (after backport) path. > Looking into the Makefile is looks like the it checks if file named > local-symbols exits (which not) and thus fails. > > Thanks > > Shetu. > How do you call the ./gentree.py script like this? ./gentree.py ~/linux/linux-next-clean/ /home/hauke/backports/backports-5.7-rc3-test1 If you just need the wifi drivers form a recent kernel you can also download a pregenerted tar here: https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Releases Hauke
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