arch/arm64/efi-stub.o rebuilding every time?
Matt Fleming
matt.fleming at intel.com
Thu Jul 3 23:36:17 PDT 2014
On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 16:16 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 3 July 2014 16:13, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > If I build an arm64 kernel, then simply hit make again without changing
> > anything, I find that efi-stub.o is rebuilt every time (with an annoying
> > warning too, but I think you already know about that):
> >
>
> Yep, I had noticed that as well. The reason is that it depends on
> generated header files, which it shouldn't. There's already a patch
> queued in Matt Fleming's tree for this:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git/commit/?h=next&id=86b2eb8cdffda7eef07b1d6e5464491df1e86ee9
It sounds like that commit should actually be put into my 'urgent'
branch and sent to tip asap instead of being queued up for the next
merge window.
Objections?
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