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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Fix a false error of generic board support
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:52:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141217155232.GO20704@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201412170204.32262.marex@denx.de>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 02:04:32AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at 12:56:46 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:56:44PM -0600, mgerlach wrote:
> > > Hello Masahiro Yamada,
> > > 
> > > Even the with this patch, we encountered a false error of generic board
> > > support.  The problem was very interrmittent for us, but we were able
> > > to debug the problem to performing builds on EXT3 file systems which
> > > have a time stamp resolution of one second.  To reproduce the problem,
> > > touch ./include/config/auto.conf and .config on a configured uboot tree
> > > on an EXT3 file system.
> > > 
> > > The patch below fixes the problem for us.
> > 
> > This makes an odd race condition problem I run into when doing massively
> > paralell builds worse :(  With MAKEALL no ARM boards build (ARCH wasn't
> > set in time so it tried arch//Makefile for something) and buildman was
> > also broken in a bunch of places.
> 
> Let me just chime in, I recall I did report something possibly similar some time 
> ago [1]. I did not manage to put a finger on this issue though and I can no 
> longer trigger it.
> 
> [1] http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-June/157481.html

No, my problem was introduced with the switch to Kbuild itself.

-- 
Tom
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-17 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-16 20:56 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Fix a false error of generic board support mgerlach
2014-12-16 23:56 ` Tom Rini
2014-12-17  1:04   ` Marek Vasut
2014-12-17 15:52     ` Tom Rini [this message]
2014-12-18 10:54       ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-12-18 10:42   ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-12-19 20:32     ` mgerlach
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-24 13:11 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Kbuild: Fix a false error of sanity check Masahiro Yamada
2014-02-24 13:11 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Fix a false error of generic board support Masahiro Yamada
2014-02-24 23:59   ` Masahiro Yamada

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