Re: [PATCH] scripts/update-linux-headers.sh: Remove temporary directory inbetween

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 27 2024, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 27/05/2024 17.04, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>> On Mon, May 27 2024, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> We are reusing the same temporary directory for installing the headers
>>> of all targets, so there could be stale files here when switching from
>>> one target to another. Make sure to delete the folder before installing
>>> a new set of target headers into it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>   scripts/update-linux-headers.sh | 1 +
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh b/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
>>> index 8963c39189..fbf7e119bc 100755
>>> --- a/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
>>> +++ b/scripts/update-linux-headers.sh
>>> @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ for arch in $ARCHLIST; do
>>>           arch_var=ARCH
>>>       fi
>>>   
>>> +    rm -rf "$hdrdir"
>>>       make -C "$linux" O="$blddir" INSTALL_HDR_PATH="$hdrdir" $arch_var=$arch headers_install
>>>   
>>>       rm -rf "$output/linux-headers/asm-$arch"
>> 
>> Hm. I presume that headers-install gives us the same set of headers
>> outside include/asm for every arch?
>
> I just double-checked and yes, apart from a file called "a.out.h", the other 
> headers outside of the asm subfolder are the same. So AFAICS there is still 
> a slight chance that we might pick up a wrong file from the asm folder... 
> shall I change the patch to only delete that subfolder? Or is that chance 
> just too small that we can ignore it?

The asm folder is probably fine, but there's a chance for errors; if
moving from "use union of files for all archs outside asm" to "use files
for the last arch in the list outside asm" always results in the same
set of files, your patch is probably the better choice here.

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>