On Mon, 21 Sept 2026 at 21:20, Oliver Upton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Fuad, > > Thanks for the fix here. > > On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 02:41:18PM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote: > > --- > > Unlike the two existing sysreg-defs.h rules, this one's recipe is a > > recursive > > make, so its prerequisites are not the recipe's arguments. They only decide > > whether to recurse, which is a question tools/arch/arm64/tools/Makefile > > already > > answers. An alternative is therefore to drop the two explicit inputs in > > favour > > of: > > > > $(GEN_SYSREG_DEFS): FORCE > > > > leaving that Makefile as the only place naming the generator's inputs. Both > > forms regenerate the header and rebuild the dependents in the same > > invocation, > > and neither rebuilds anything when nothing changed. I kept the explicit > > prerequisites so that the recursion stays conditional, but I am happy to > > respin > > with FORCE if you would rather. > > This might be the better approach at this point. In the unlikely event > that new dependencies get added to the kernel side of this, I'll give it > approximately a 0% chance that the author will update this rule :)
I'm on it! /fuad > > Thanks, > Oliver
