Re: [PATCH v3] tags: honor COMPILED_SOURCE with apart output directory

[Robert Jarzmik]

Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I wanted you to update the log.
>
> 2017-06-05 20:59 GMT+09:00 Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>:
>> When the kernel is compiled with an "O=" argument, the object files are
>> not necessarily in the source tree, and more probably in another tree.
>
> Always in another tree.
>
>> In this situation, the current used check doesn't work, and
>> COMPILED_SOURCE tags is broken with O= builds.
>>
>> This patch fixes it by looking for object files both in source tree and
>> potential destination tree.
>
> only in the destination tree.
>
>
>> It was verified that in the case of O= usage, the current directory is
>> the build tree, ie. the tree referenced by O=xxx, and j is the source
>> tree path concatenated with relative path of the object to the source
>> tree root, hence the simple expression to compute "k" as the built
>> object.
>
> "k" is no longer used in v3.
>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> I fixed up the git description and applied to linux-kbuild/fixes.
> If you see something wrong, please let me know.
Your changes are perfectly correct, thanks.

Cheers.

-- 
Robert