On 3/13/2015 6:13 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
