arch/arm64/efi-stub.o rebuilding every time?

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Jul 4 01:24:42 PDT 2014


On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 07:36:17AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> 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?

Sounds good to me. You can also add my ack, if you like:

  Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Will



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