Re: [PATCH] kern-devsrc: Drop auto.conf creation

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 09:16 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 7:14 AM Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > After this commit in the mainline kernel, the quoting is different in auto.conf
> > compared to .config:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=129ab0d2d9f38b9d43df35235fc66c6740d6928b
> > 
> > We therefore can't just copy one over the other or it leads to syntax/quoting
> > errors. We end up running make prepare anyway in all our tests so drop
> > this copy for fix 5.19 kernels.
> 
> It is safe to stop doing this manipulation now.
> 
> But I am curious, I was running on-target tests for 5.19+ and didn't
> have any issues, what is breaking that I managed to miss ?

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/59/builds/5629/steps/13/logs/stdio

Basically any kernelmodule.KernelModuleTest.test_kernel_module which
was run was failing (which would run on any image with kernel-devsrc in
and a toolchain). It failed everywhere, all sdk qemu machines equally.

> There is a risk that if the .cmd files start regenerating because of
> this missing, or the different timestamp, that we'll have issues. But
> putting it through the AB should show us if that is true.

After this change is applied, the build looks a lot greener and this
issue goes away.

Cheers,

Richard