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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] compat: explicitly export generated variables
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:34:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333139642.7679.7.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6XXzwKjFCbV=zi7DaPtpa4aqttB4EMTqaKSzhPMHwJd1A@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20120330_223142_126396_7FBFC053)

On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 13:30 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> >
> > Doing the blanket "export" statement at the beginning
> > of the generated file confuses the kernel's Makefiles
> > and causes extreme build slowdowns.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> > ---
> 
> Nice, how did you figure this out BTW!?

Random monkey approach ;-)

I noticed it was slow and saw that it was due to some weird shit from
the kernel Makefile.lib being executed when it shouldn't be.

Since I have the compat *result* in git, I could easily see the diff
between the old compat.git/compat-wireless.git and the new versions. And
then I basically tried to identify the changes that caused this problem,
my best guess was that it had to be the Makefile so I gradually changed
that back to the previous version until the problem went away ... and
then identified which changes were responsible.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-30 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 11:10 [PATCH 0/2] compat: fix extreme build slowdowns Johannes Berg
2012-03-30 11:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] compat-wireless: include config.mk early Johannes Berg
2012-03-30 11:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] compat: explicitly export generated variables Johannes Berg
2012-03-30 20:30   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-03-30 20:34     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-03-30 20:38       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-03-30 11:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] compat: fix extreme build slowdowns Sujith Manoharan
2012-03-30 11:30   ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-30 14:41     ` Richard Farina
2012-03-30 20:43       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-03-30 21:24         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-03-30 21:48           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-03-31  9:24             ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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