[Buildroot] [PATCH v2] linux custom tarball: automatically detect a change in tarball configuration

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 09:42:13 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
<patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When you specify a LINUX_TARBALL, the variable LINUX_VERSION will be set to
>> the fixed "custom". As a result, LINUX_DIR remains the same even though you
>> modified the .config file to specify a different tarball.  When re-running
>> make, buildroot does not see the change because the stamp files still look
>> up-to-date, and you'll have to force building the new kernel in some way.
>>
>> This patch overwrites LINUX_VERSION to include the LINUX_TARBALL string, If a
>> new custom tarball is configured, LINUX_DIR will be different, the old stamp
>> files will not matter, and buildroot will correctly start the build process for
>> the new kernel.
>>
>> Although the resulting linux directory name in output/build will look strange, I
>> think that developers using the 'custom tarball' option will not mind given the
>> benefits of it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> v2: take into account that LINUX_TARBALL may be an URL (thanks to Daniel Nyström
>> for the URL transformation suggestion).
>>
>>  linux/linux.mk |  4 ++++
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/linux/linux.mk b/linux/linux.mk
>> --- a/linux/linux.mk
>> +++ b/linux/linux.mk
>> @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
>>  LINUX_TARBALL = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_TARBALL_LOCATION))
>>  LINUX_SITE = $(dir $(LINUX_TARBALL))
>>  LINUX_SOURCE = $(notdir $(LINUX_TARBALL))
>> +# Overwrite LINUX_VERSION so that LINUX_DIR becomes unique, in which case a
>> +# change in the LINUX_TARBALL configuration automatically gets picked up.
>> +LINUX_VERSION = custom-$(subst /,_,$(lastword $(subst ://, ,$(LINUX_TARBALL))))
>> +
>>  else ifeq ($(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT),y)
>>  LINUX_SITE = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_GIT_REPO_URL))
>>  LINUX_SITE_METHOD = git
>>
>
> What about this updated patch?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>

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