From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933976AbdBQN6T (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:58:19 -0500 Received: from outbound1.eu.mailhop.org ([52.28.251.132]:19553 "EHLO outbound1.eu.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933832AbdBQN6S (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:58:18 -0500 X-MHO-User: 22550c29-f519-11e6-95b5-6dfd7dbb0ee5 X-Report-Abuse-To: https://support.duocircle.com/support/solutions/articles/5000540958-duocircle-standard-smtp-abuse-information X-Originating-IP: 173.50.81.193 X-Mail-Handler: DuoCircle Outbound SMTP X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.6.8 io 384C48015F Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:58:10 +0000 From: Jason Cooper To: Stephen Boyd Cc: Michal Marek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: objdiff: Ignore debug info when comparing Message-ID: <20170217135810.GJ25924@io.lakedaemon.net> References: <20170216211820.4337-1-stephen.boyd@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170216211820.4337-1-stephen.boyd@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Stephen, On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 01:18:20PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: > If the kernel is configured to be built with debug symbols, or > has bug tables, comparing files may not work if line numbers > change. This makes comparing object files with these options > harder to do. Let's strip out the debug info and drop the > __bug_table here so that we don't see false positives. There may > be other things to drop later, and it may be architecture > specific, but this works for me with my ARM64 build. > > Cc: Masahiro Yamada > Cc: Jason Cooper > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Reviewed-by: Jason Cooper I'm glad it's useful! thx, Jason.