On 11 February 2016 at 00:59, Masahiro Yamada
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2016-02-11 7:16 GMT+09:00 Stephen Warren <[email protected]>:
>> From: Stephen Warren <[email protected]>
>>
>> If BUILD_TAG is part of KBUILD_CFLAGS, then any time the value changes,
>> all files get rebuilt. In a continuous integration environment, the value
>> will change every build. This wastes time, assuming that incremental
>> builds would otherwise occur.
>>
>> To solve this, remove BUILD_TAG from KBUILD_CFLAGS and add it to CFLAGS
>> for just the one file that uses it. This does have the disadvantage that
>> if any other files want to use the flag, we'll need to duplicate this
>> custom CFLAGS setup logic. However, it seems unlikely we'll need this.
>>
>> An alternative would be to add BUILD_TAG to the "local version" and remove
>> the special case code from display_options.c. However, that would affect
>> the format of the U-Boot signon message, which may negatively affect
>> people looking for specific data there. The approach of using
>> file-specific CFLAGS was suggested by Masahiro Yamada.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> v3: Undo accidental removal of bch.o.
>> v2: Set CFLAGS on display_options.c rather than modifying
>> scripts/setlocalversion to add BUILD_TAG to the local version.
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
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