Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:05:46 -0700 | From | Olof Johansson <> | Subject | Re: 3.9-rc1 regression in arm dtb build |
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:50:54PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 03/07/2013 07:45 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > >>> commit 499cd8298628eeabf0eb5eb6525d4faa0eec80d8 > >>> Author: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> > >>> Date: Tue Nov 27 16:29:11 2012 -0700 > > ... > >>> 1) it is inconsistent with 3.8, making switching between 3.9-rc1 and > >>> 3.8 tricky > >> > >> It's pretty easy to locate the DTB by automatically looking in > >> arch/*/boot/dts first, then if the file doesn't exist there, looking in > >> arch/*/boot instead as a legacy fallback. > > > > Unfortunately, that does not work. See 2) below. Stale files even > > survive "make clean". > > Oh right. I guess it works fine when having built 3.7 and then building > 3.8, since you'd look in the new location first and only fall back to > the old location if missing. However, if you then switch back to 3.7 to > test something, I guess that doesn't work so well. > > I tend to always build the dtbs target, so I wasn't affected by this. > And, often run "git clean -f -d -x" too. > > Grant, what's your call on this issue; should I/you look into ways to > clean the files better, or do you want to revert this?
I'm not Grant, but I think we're better off cleaning up the current situation instead of reverting. Otherwise 3.8 will be the oddball weird release; it's better to get people moved over to the new location.
-Olof
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