Re: [PATCH] kbuild: buildtar: remove warning for the default case

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Mon Apr 22 2024 - 16:46:11 EST


On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:46:10AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Given KBUILD_IMAGE properly set in arch/*/Makefile, the default case
> should work in most scenarios. The only oddity is the naming of the
> copy destination, vmlinux-kbuild-${KERNELRELEASE}. Let's rename it
> to vmlinuz-${KERNELRELEASE} because the kernel is often compressed.
> Remove the warning to avoid unnecessary patch submissions when the
> default case suffices.
>
> Remove the x86 case, which is now identical to the default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sounds good to me, the script is extensible enough that if this does not
work by default for some architecture, a new case can be added, rather
than penalizing architectures for which it does work.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> scripts/package/buildtar | 12 +-----------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/package/buildtar b/scripts/package/buildtar
> index ed8d9b496305..fe816f62a290 100755
> --- a/scripts/package/buildtar
> +++ b/scripts/package/buildtar
> @@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ cp -v -- "${objtree}/vmlinux" "${tmpdir}/boot/vmlinux-${KERNELRELEASE}"
> # build tree.
> #
> case "${ARCH}" in
> - x86|i386|x86_64)
> - cp -v -- "${objtree}/arch/x86/boot/bzImage" "${tmpdir}/boot/vmlinuz-${KERNELRELEASE}"
> - ;;
> alpha)
> cp -v -- "${objtree}/arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz" "${tmpdir}/boot/vmlinuz-${KERNELRELEASE}"
> ;;
> @@ -110,13 +107,6 @@ case "${ARCH}" in
> done
> ;;
> *)
> - cp -v -- "${KBUILD_IMAGE}" "${tmpdir}/boot/vmlinux-kbuild-${KERNELRELEASE}"
> - echo "" >&2
> - echo '** ** ** WARNING ** ** **' >&2
> - echo "" >&2
> - echo "Your architecture did not define any architecture-dependent files" >&2
> - echo "to be placed into the tarball. Please add those to ${0} ..." >&2
> - echo "" >&2
> - sleep 5
> + cp -v -- "${KBUILD_IMAGE}" "${tmpdir}/boot/vmlinuz-${KERNELRELEASE}"
> ;;
> esac
> --
> 2.40.1
>