Re: [PATCH v3 for-next] pm: cpupower: rename raw_pylibcpupower.i

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 9/13/24 14:17, Min-Hua Chen wrote:
> The raw_pylibcpupower.i is removed unexpectedly after 'make mrproper'
> 
> We can reproduce the error by performing the following steps:
> cd linux-next
> make mrproper
> cd tools/power/cpupower/bindings/python
> make
> 
> We will get an error message:
> make: *** No rule to make target 'raw_pylibcpupower.i', needed by 'raw_pylibcpupower_wrap.c'.  Stop.
> 
> The root cause:
> 
> The *.i files are already used for pre-processor output files and
> the kernel removes all the *.i files by 'make mrproper'.
> 
> That explains why the raw_pylibcpupower.i is removed by 'make mrproper'.
> 
> To fix it, Follow John's suggestion to rename raw_pylibcpupower.i to
> raw_pylibcpupower.swg.
> 
> See:
> https://www.swig.org/Doc4.2/SWIG.html
> 
> Reviewed-by: John B. Wyatt IV <jwyatt@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: John B. Wyatt IV <sageofredondo@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: John B. Wyatt IV <jwyatt@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: John B. Wyatt IV <sageofredondo@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Min-Hua Chen <minhuadotchen@gmail.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> change since v1:
> build a non-frc patch
> change since v2:
> follow the document to rename *.if to *.swg
> 

Thank you Min for finding the problem and working with us
to fix it.

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux.git/log/?h=cpupower

Please note that this will be sent to PM maintainer in my next pull
request. This might be after the merge window.

thanks,
-- Shuah