Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86/build: limit rebuilding of asm-offsets.h

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 28.12.2020 13:00, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:45:56AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> This file has a long dependencies list (through asm-offsets.s) and a
>> long list of dependents. IOW if any of the former changes, all of the
>> latter will be rebuilt, even if there's no actual change to the
>> generated file. This is the primary scenario we have the move-if-changed
>> macro for.
>>
>> Since debug information may easily cause the file contents to change in
>> benign ways, also avoid emitting this into the output file.
>>
>> Finally already before this change *.new files needed including in what
>> gets removed by the "clean" target.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

>> ---
>> Perhaps Arm would want doing the same. In fact perhaps the rules should
>> be unified by moving to common code?
> 
> Having the rule in common code would be my preference, the
> prerequisites are slightly different, but I think we can sort this
> out?

Well, that's the nice thing about make rules: Dependencies / prereqs
and the actual rule can be specified independently. I.e. I'd envision
per-arch dependency specifications and a common rule (with common
dependencies of course living there as well).

Jan