[PATCH] kbuild: remove recent dependency on "truncate" program

[PATCH] kbuild: remove recent dependency on "truncate" program

[Tony Battersby]

Remove the recently-added dependency on the truncate program for
building the kernel.  truncate is not available when building the kernel
under Yocto.  It could be added, but it would be better just to avoid
the unnecessary dependency.

Fixes: 1472464c6248 ("kbuild: avoid scripts/kallsyms parsing /dev/null")
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
---
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 070a319140e8..c27b4e969f20 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ kallsymso=
 strip_debug=
 
 if is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS; then
-	truncate -s0 .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms
+	true > .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms
 	kallsyms .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms .tmp_vmlinux0.kallsyms
 fi
 

base-commit: 3e9bff3bbe1355805de919f688bef4baefbfd436
-- 
2.25.1

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove recent dependency on "truncate" program

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 09:51:25AM -0400, Tony Battersby wrote:
> Remove the recently-added dependency on the truncate program for
> building the kernel.  truncate is not available when building the kernel
> under Yocto.  It could be added, but it would be better just to avoid
> the unnecessary dependency.
> 
> Fixes: 1472464c6248 ("kbuild: avoid scripts/kallsyms parsing /dev/null")
> Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>

Seems reasonable to me and appears to generate an identical result for
me.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

> ---
>  scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> index 070a319140e8..c27b4e969f20 100755
> --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ kallsymso=
>  strip_debug=
>  
>  if is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS; then
> -	truncate -s0 .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms
> +	true > .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms
>  	kallsyms .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms .tmp_vmlinux0.kallsyms
>  fi
>  
> 
> base-commit: 3e9bff3bbe1355805de919f688bef4baefbfd436
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: remove recent dependency on "truncate" program

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 10:51 PM Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> wrote:
>
> Remove the recently-added dependency on the truncate program for
> building the kernel.  truncate is not available when building the kernel
> under Yocto.  It could be added, but it would be better just to avoid
> the unnecessary dependency.
>
> Fixes: 1472464c6248 ("kbuild: avoid scripts/kallsyms parsing /dev/null")
> Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>


I have no objection.
'true' is a shell-builtin command, so it saves a process fork.


Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks!


BTW, 'truncate' is used in drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile.zboot
(CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT).
It seems to be no problem in Yocto.







> ---
>  scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> index 070a319140e8..c27b4e969f20 100755
> --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ kallsymso=
>  strip_debug=
>
>  if is_enabled CONFIG_KALLSYMS; then
> -       truncate -s0 .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms
> +       true > .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms
>         kallsyms .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.syms .tmp_vmlinux0.kallsyms
>  fi
>
>
> base-commit: 3e9bff3bbe1355805de919f688bef4baefbfd436
> --
> 2.25.1
>


--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada