[PATCH v2 1/5] ARM: Broadcom: Unconditionally build arch/arm/mach-bcm

Domenico Andreoli cavokz at gmail.com
Fri Jul 26 19:30:18 EDT 2013


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:38:29PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:28:09AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > I've got the point but didn't fully understand why would be so wrong to
> > walk one more subdir even if nothing is going to be built.
> 
> Consider what would happen if we decended the 61 mach- subdirectories
> on every build run when only one was really required.  Even though
> kbuild tries to be fast, there's still a non-zero amount of time
> involved with finding out there's nothing to be done - and you
> will still end up generating a built-in.o file even though there's
> no other objects, which will then also be included in the final
> link - again, adding to the work which has to be done.

crystal clear. thanks.

Domenico



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