kbuild: fix spurious initramfs rebuild
authorMaxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:49:52 +0000 (18:49 +0100)
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:18:12 +0000 (08:18 +0200)
commit9e5ec8615209f6a5bf2a612120d972b6021790da
tree16ce12d419bdb531f59cfb2e8049f3c195b404f5
parent20375bf82567b5fecd331048c6cc1fc292b67710
kbuild: fix spurious initramfs rebuild

When gen_initramfs_list is used to generate make dependencies, it
includes symbolic links, for which make tracks the link target. Any
change to that target will cause an initramfs rebuild, even if the
symlink points to something outside of the initramfs directory.

If the target happens to be /tmp, the rebuild occurs for each kernel
build, since gen_initramfs_list uses mktemp...

Proposed way to fix it is to omit symbolic links from generated
dependencies, but this has a small drawback: changing perm/owner on a
symlink will go unnoticed.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh