From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/of/Makefile | 5 +++-- drivers/of/unittest-data/.gitignore | 2 ++ drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/of/Makefile =================================================================== --- a/drivers/of/Makefile +++ b/drivers/of/Makefile @@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_OF_PROMTREE) += pdt.o obj-$(CONFIG_OF_ADDRESS) += address.o obj-$(CONFIG_OF_IRQ) += irq.o obj-$(CONFIG_OF_NET) += of_net.o -obj-$(CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST) += of_unittest.o -of_unittest-objs := unittest.o unittest-data/testcases.dtb.o +obj-$(CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST) += unittest.o obj-$(CONFIG_OF_MDIO) += of_mdio.o obj-$(CONFIG_OF_PCI) += of_pci.o obj-$(CONFIG_OF_PCI_IRQ) += of_pci_irq.o @@ -16,5 +15,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_OF_RESERVED_MEM) += of_rese obj-$(CONFIG_OF_RESOLVE) += resolver.o obj-$(CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY) += overlay.o +obj-$(CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST) += unittest-data/ + CFLAGS_fdt.o = -I$(src)/../../scripts/dtc/libfdt CFLAGS_fdt_address.o = -I$(src)/../../scripts/dtc/libfdt Index: b/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile =================================================================== --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +obj-y += testcases.dtb.o + +targets += testcases.dtb testcases.dtb.S + +.SECONDARY: \ + $(obj)/testcases.dtb.S \ + $(obj)/testcases.dtb Index: b/drivers/of/unittest-data/.gitignore =================================================================== --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/of/unittest-data/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +testcases.dtb +testcases.dtb.S -- 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