Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:29 PM Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> The lkp robot reported that some configs fail to build, for example
>> mpc85xx_smp_defconfig, with:
>>
>> cc1: fatal error: opening output file
>> arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/.mpc8540ads.dtb.dts.tmp: No such file or directory
>>
>> This bisects to:
>> cc8a51ca6f05 ("kbuild: always create directories of targets")
>>
>> Although that commit claims to be about in-tree builds, it somehow
>> breaks out-of-tree builds. But presumably it's just exposing a latent
>> bug in our Makefiles.
>>
>> We can fix it by adding to targets for dts/fsl in the same way that we
>> do for dts.
>>
>> Fixes: cc8a51ca6f05 ("kbuild: always create directories of targets")
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <l...@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
>> index 68a7534454cd..c3e084cceaed 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
>> @@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ initrd-y := $(filter-out $(image-y), $(initrd-y))
>> targets += $(image-y) $(initrd-y)
>> targets += $(foreach x, dtbImage uImage cuImage simpleImage treeImage, \
>> $(patsubst $(x).%, dts/%.dtb, $(filter $(x).%, $(image-y))))
>> +targets += $(foreach x, dtbImage uImage cuImage simpleImage treeImage, \
>> + $(patsubst $(x).%, dts/fsl/%.dtb, $(filter $(x).%,
>> $(image-y))))
>>
>> $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(initrd-y)): $(obj)/ramdisk.image.gz
>>
>
>
> Some freescale dts files are right under arch/powerpc/boot/dts/,
> but some are in the fsl/ subdirectory.
> I do not understand the policy.
There isn't a policy. Best I can tell Kumar felt like it would be
cleaner to have a separate directory for (some of) the Freescale DTS
files, when he initially submitted them ~9 years ago.
> If "fsl/" is a very special case,
> I just thought we could add a new syntax, fslimage-y,
> but I do not mind either way.
OK. If you don't mind I'll merge my patch as a quick fix for now.
Then we can probably move all the fsl/ files up one level and avoid the
problem entirely in future.
> fslimage-$(CONFIG_MPC8540_ADS) += cuImage.mpc8540ads
>
> targets += $(foreach x, dtbImage uImage cuImage simpleImage treeImage, \
> $(patsubst $(x).%, dts/fsl/%.dtb, $(filter $(x).%,
> $(fslimage-y))))
>
>
> This Makefile is wrong over-all anyway.
Excellent.
cheers
