Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order

["Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@intel.com>]

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On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 16:45 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 
> This commit fixes arg-check to compare two strings as a whole.
> $(strip ...) is important because we want to ignore the difference
> that comes from white-spaces.

Do we?

I can construct a hypothetical situation in which whitespace differs
and we *do* want it to make a difference (for example I used to sign
with a key called 'My Signing Key.pem' and now I've changed to use
'My  Signing  Key.pem'. (OK, it's a *stupid* example but still...)

I couldn't come up with the converse — where whitespace does change for
some reason, but we really don't want to rebuild.

Should we err on the side of caution, and let whitespace changes
trigger a rebuild?

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation


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