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From: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:25:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d173f8777668de8649f894af64dbf8798e48cf20.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230320040839.660475-2-bgray@linux.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 15:08 +1100, Benjamin Gray wrote:
> gen_initramfs.sh has an internal dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
> for generating file mtimes that is not exposed to make, so changing
> KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP will not trigger a rebuild of the archive.
> 
> Declare the mtime date as a new parameter to gen_initramfs.sh to
> encode
> KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP in the shell command, thereby making make
> aware
> of the dependency.
> 
> It will rebuild if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP changes or is newly
> set/unset.
> It will _not_ rebuild if KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is unset before and
> after. This should be fine for anyone who doesn't care about setting
> specific build times in the first place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>

-- 
Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@linux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-22  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-20  4:08 [PATCH 1/2] initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive Benjamin Gray
2023-03-20  4:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP Benjamin Gray
2023-03-22  5:25   ` Andrew Donnellan [this message]
2023-04-16  4:06   ` Masahiro Yamada
2023-06-06  4:14     ` Masahiro Yamada
2023-06-06  6:18       ` Benjamin Gray
2023-03-22  4:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive Andrew Donnellan
2023-04-16  8:46 ` Masahiro Yamada

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