Re: kernel.release being regenerated

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

Hi Holger,

On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 19:43 +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> I have an integration build that at least builds our sysmocom
> BTS layers against master of Yocto. Our nightly build started
> to be flaky and fail most of the time building the Linux kernel.
> 
> We are using a 3.10 LTS kernel for the product and it looks
> like the kernel.release will be (re)created in the build directory
> when the uImage is generated but also when "make modules" is
> called.
> 
> This means that shared_workdir in my case should be called at
> a later stage, e.g. after do_compilekernelmodules.
> 
> Did anyone else see flaky builds?

We've not see any on the yocto project autobuilders and I've not heard
reports of this from anyone else. I've cc'd Bruce in case he's aware of
anything and can chime in but the new code is being used in many places,
including with 3.10 kernels and I've not heard reports.

The fact the kernel.release is being recreated suggests something in the
configuration is changing (different environment or commandline
options?) or that there is a problem in your kernel to do with the
Makefiles and the dependencies of the kernel.release file.

You might reach a wider audience with questions like this on the yocto
or openembedded-core mailing lists btw, poky tends to be fairly quiet
these days although many of us are here too :)

Cheers,

Richard