Re: Changing external kernel module results in rebuild of whole kernel

[Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>]

On 06-05-15 12:35, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 6 May 2015 at 07:35, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl
> <mailto:mike.looijmans@topic.nl>> wrote:
>
>     If I change a recipe for a kernel module (a bb recipe that does "inherit
>     module") this will trigger a rebuild of the whole kernel.
>
>
> You can start to debug this by using bitbake-whatchanged. Build the kernel and
> modules, make a minor change to the module recipe, and then run
> "bitbake-whatchanged virtual/kernel" or some relevant target.

I tried the command "bitbake -S printdiff virtual/kernel" instead, which gave 
the following output:


The differences between the current build and any cached tasks start at the 
following tasks:
/home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/meta-zynq/recipes-kernel/linux-zynq/linux-topic.bb, 
do_rm_work_all
NOTE: Reparsing files to collect dependency data
Writing locked sigs to /home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/build/locked-sigs.inc

Task linux-topic:do_rm_work_all couldn't be used from the cache because:
   We need hash ab23ed87f933003f95ca7bab4d70c1dc, closest matching task was 
99f675e6d7f7eed1bb5c3f2391e8a581
   Hash for dependent task readlinereadline_6.3.bb.do_rm_work:virtual:native 
changed from cc2e3667e52d154d8c9db7cb06ba2515 to de357460cfaed520424e5d7762713df0
   Unable to find matching sigdata for 
virtual:native:/home/mike/projects/zynq-platform/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline_6.3.bb.do_rm_work 
with hashes cc2e3667e52d154d8c9db7cb06ba2515 or de357460cfaed520424e5d7762713df0



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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