Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The decision to rebuild .S_shipped is made based on the relative > timestamps of .S_shipped and .pl files but git makes this essentially > random. This means that the perl script might run anyway (usually at > most once per checkout), defeating the whole purpose of _shipped. > > Fix by skipping the rule unless explicit make variables are provided: > REGENERATE_ARM_CRYPTO or REGENERATE_ARM64_CRYPTO. > > This can produce nasty occasional build failures downstream, for example > for toolchains with broken perl. The solution is minimally intrusive to > make it easier to push into stable. > > Another report on a similar issue here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/8/1379 > > Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@xxxxxxx> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
