Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH LIVEPATCH-BUILD-TOOLS 2/2] Prevent spurious rebuilding

2016-07-21 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:48:17PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On 07/21/2016 03:33 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > >>Don't change the timestamp of arch/x86/Makefile when editing it since it > >>forces much of the Xen tree to b

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH LIVEPATCH-BUILD-TOOLS 2/2] Prevent spurious rebuilding

2016-07-21 Thread Ross Lagerwall
On 07/21/2016 03:33 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote: Don't change the timestamp of arch/x86/Makefile when editing it since it forces much of the Xen tree to be rebuilt and then requires many invocations of create-diff-tool. This is

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH LIVEPATCH-BUILD-TOOLS 2/2] Prevent spurious rebuilding

2016-07-21 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > Don't change the timestamp of arch/x86/Makefile when editing it since it > forces much of the Xen tree to be rebuilt and then requires many > invocations of create-diff-tool. > > This is safe since the Makefile change only changes t

[Xen-devel] [PATCH LIVEPATCH-BUILD-TOOLS 2/2] Prevent spurious rebuilding

2016-07-20 Thread Ross Lagerwall
Don't change the timestamp of arch/x86/Makefile when editing it since it forces much of the Xen tree to be rebuilt and then requires many invocations of create-diff-tool. This is safe since the Makefile change only changes the final link rule, and xen will be relinked anyway. --- livepatch-build