Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 03/48] qemu-timer: introduce timer attributes

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 7 November 2018 at 20:21, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/6/18 3:45 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>> On 06/11/2018 00:16, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/18/18 3:31 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Artem Pisarenko <artem.k.pisarenko@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> Attributes are simple flags, associated with individual timers for their
>>>> whole lifetime.  They intended to be used to mark individual timers for
>>>> special handling when they fire.
>
>
>>> git bisect points to this patch as the reason that 'make check' is
>>> failing for me with:
>>
>>
>> I think you have a stale file somewhere, because "git grep timer_init_tl
>> 89a603a0c80ae3d6a8711571550b2ae9a01ea909" shows no occurrences.
>
>
> Indeed a stale file, as 'find -name "*.o' -delete' cleared up the issue -
> but it means we have a missing makefile dependency such that incremental
> builds weren't able to notice that a .o needed to be rebuilt to lose the
> stale reference.

Not clear where, though, because (at least in my build tree)
hw/core/ptimer.d says that hw/core/ptimer.o depends on
include/hw/ptimer.h, and tests/Makefile.inc says that
tests/ptimer-test depends on hw/core/ptimer.o...

thanks
-- PMM