On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 06:30:29PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote: > objdiff is useful when doing large code cleanups. For example, when > removing checkpatch warnings and errors from new drivers in the staging > tree. > > objdiff can be used in conjunction with a git rebase to confirm that > each commit made no changes to the resulting object code. It has the > same return values as diff(1). > > This was written specifically to support adding the skein and threefish > cryto drivers to the staging tree. I needed a programmatic way to > confirm that commits changing >90% of the lines didn't inadvertently > change the code. > > Temporary files (objdump output) are stored in > > /path/to/linux/.tmp_objdiff > > 'make mrproper' will remove this directory. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <ja...@lakedaemon.net> > --- > Changes from V2: > > - use /path/to/linux/.tmp_objdiff instead of /tmp/objdiff (Michal Marek) > > - don't delete object files during record (Michal Marek) > > - remove .tmp_objdiff directory during 'make mrproper' (Michal Marek)
Applied to kbuild.git#misc, thanks. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
