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