Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] script: make automatic dtb build info generation

[Rob Herring]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 05:14:18PM +0100, Alexandre Torgue wrote:
> Append each "xxx.dtb.dts.tmp" file with "build-info" entry during dtb
> build. It allows to get build information (date, source version, ...)
> for each device tree without modify them manually.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@xxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> index a5af84ef4ffc..f084e78267b2 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> @@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ quiet_cmd_dtc = DTC     $@
>  cmd_dtc = mkdir -p $(dir ${dtc-tmp}) ; \
>  	$(DTB_GEN_INFO) $(src) ; \

We regenerate this for every dtb?

>  	$(HOSTCC) -E $(dtc_cpp_flags) -x assembler-with-cpp -o $(dtc-tmp) $< ; \
> +	$(DTB_GEN_INFO) $(src) $(dtc-tmp) ; \
>  	$(DTC) -O $(2) -o $@ -b 0 \
>  		$(addprefix -i,$(dir $<) $(DTC_INCLUDE)) $(DTC_FLAGS) \
>  		-d $(depfile).dtc.tmp $(dtc-tmp) ; \
> diff --git a/scripts/gen_dtb_build_info.sh b/scripts/gen_dtb_build_info.sh
> index 0cd8bd98e410..72f31e386787 100755
> --- a/scripts/gen_dtb_build_info.sh
> +++ b/scripts/gen_dtb_build_info.sh
> @@ -6,5 +6,7 @@ set -o nounset
>  DTB_DIR=$1
>  DTB_COMPILE_BY=$(whoami | sed 's/\\/\\\\/')

Use LINUX_COMPILE_BY #define

>  DTB_INFO="From Linux $KERNELRELEASE by $DTB_COMPILE_BY the $(date).\0"

I'd use UTS_RELEASE and UTS_VERSION defines here.

> +DTS_FILE=$2
>  
> -printf "$DTB_INFO" > "$DTB_DIR/dtb-build.txt"
> +printf "$DTB_INFO" > "arch/arm/boot/dts/dtb-build.txt"

Obviously, hardcoding this is not right. You probably need to prepend 
with $(obj) so this works for out of tree builds too.

> +echo "&{/} {build-info = /incbin/(\"dtb-build.txt\");};" >> $DTS_FILE

You could commit the .dtsi file using the above defines and then just 
add a #include of it here. Then we'd get dependency tracking for free.

Rob