From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v2 12/19] ts-kernel-build: Support --reuse to keep same build tree Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:40:49 +0100 Message-ID: <1434706849.28264.61.camel@citrix.com> References: <1434644687.28264.53.camel@citrix.com> <1434644710-28881-12-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <21891.1726.828821.782026@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <21891.1726.828821.782026@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 18:58 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST v2 12/19] ts-kernel-build: Support --reuse to keep same build tree"): > > This is very useful when iterating over kernel configurations, since > > it avoids blowing away the build tree and all the existing built > > objects. The Linux build system does the right thing when .config > > changes and only rebuilds the affected bits. > > Acked-by: Ian Jackson Thanks. > This one should perhaps be considered for bundling into some other > bunch of stuff, as AFAICT there is no reason for it to wait. Yes, it was really just something incidental which I happened to write to make the last but one patch easier (adjusting .config) to come up with. It could go in alone or with some other miscellanea I think. Ian