[OE-core] [PATCH] kernel/rm_work: Improve interaction

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed May 20 12:05:31 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 14:01 +0800, ChenQi wrote:
> I've observed a side effect of this patch.
> The problem is sstate reuse.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) bitbake core-image-minimal
> 2) Change TMPDIR in local.conf
>       TMPDIR = "${TOPDIR}/tmp-test"
> 3) bitbake core-image-minimal
> 
> In theory, sstate objects are all reused in step 3. But currently the 
> do_populate_sysroot sstate object of the kernel is not reused. In 
> addition, other kernel tasks like do_fetch, do_patch, do_compile, etc, 
> are rerun.

Well spotted, I've sent a patch out for this.

Cheers,

Richard




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