Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:48:32 +0800 | From | Amerigo Wang <> | Subject | Re: defconfig strangeness |
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:07:23PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > >HI ! > > doing a series of static code analysis on 2.6.34-rcX each of them with > defconfig (x86 32bit) - the strangeness is that even though the config > file is the same for rc3...5 the number of files actually compiled > is very different. (linux-2.6 git tree) > > 2.6.34-rc5 1695 > 2.6.34-rc4 3404 > 2.6.34-rc3 5109 > > I diffed the .configs - rc4/rc5 only shows > >3,4c3,4 >< # Linux kernel version: 2.6.34-rc4 >< # Thu Apr 22 11:37:43 2010 >--- >> # Linux kernel version: 2.6.34-rc5 >> # Thu Apr 22 10:44:02 2010 > > why then this large difference in files being compiled ? > > any hint apprecieated. >
Hmm, interesting.
I guess it would be due to some dependences.
Use the way that you used to find the number of compiled files to find which files are compiled, make a sorted list and do a diff.
Thanks.
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