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kheaders: explain why include/config/autoconf.h is excluded from md5sum
authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tue, 8 Oct 2019 12:05:56 +0000 (21:05 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:10:01 +0000 (20:10 +0900)
This comment block explains why include/generated/compile.h is omitted,
but nothing about include/generated/autoconf.h, which might be more
difficult to understand. Add more comments.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
kernel/gen_kheaders.sh

index dc5744b..e13ca84 100755 (executable)
@@ -32,8 +32,15 @@ fi
 all_dirs="$all_dirs $dir_list"
 
 # include/generated/compile.h is ignored because it is touched even when none
-# of the source files changed. This causes pointless regeneration, so let us
-# ignore them for md5 calculation.
+# of the source files changed.
+#
+# When Kconfig regenerates include/generated/autoconf.h, its timestamp is
+# updated, but the contents might be still the same. When any CONFIG option is
+# changed, Kconfig touches the corresponding timestamp file include/config/*.h.
+# Hence, the md5sum detects the configuration change anyway. We do not need to
+# check include/generated/autoconf.h explicitly.
+#
+# Ignore them for md5 calculation to avoid pointless regeneration.
 headers_md5="$(find $all_dirs -name "*.h"                      |
                grep -v "include/generated/compile.h"   |
                grep -v "include/generated/autoconf.h"  |