From: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org,
Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>,
Devicetree Discuss <devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux@openrisc.net,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: Use dtc's -d (dependency) option
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:12:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120110031220.GC23362@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326134295-15547-2-git-send-email-swarren@nvidia.com>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:38:15AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> This hooks dtc into Kbuild's dependency system.
>
> Thus, for example, "make dtbs" will rebuild tegra-harmony.dtb if only
> tegra20.dtsi has changed yet tegra-harmony.dts has not. The previous
> lack of this feature recently caused me to have very confusing "git
> bisect" results.
>
> For ARM, it's obvious what to add to $(targets). I'm not familiar enough
> with other architectures to know what to add there. Powerpc appears to
> already add various .dtb files into $(targets), but the other archs may
> need something added to $(targets) to work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Though I did not look into the patches deeply, I know the problem very
well and it annoys me a lot. It's great that we have patches to fix
it, so
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
--
Regards,
Shawn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-10 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-09 18:38 [PATCH 1/2] dtc: Implement -d option to write out a dependency file Stephen Warren
2012-01-09 18:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: Use dtc's -d (dependency) option Stephen Warren
2012-01-10 3:12 ` Shawn Guo [this message]
2012-01-11 19:36 ` Mark Salter
2012-01-14 22:51 ` Michal Marek
2012-01-17 17:20 ` Stephen Warren
2012-01-17 18:26 ` Mark Salter
2012-01-18 10:07 ` Michal Marek
2012-01-09 18:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] dtc: Implement -d option to write out a dependency file Jon Loeliger
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