Because the kbuild function if_changed writes the command line to a
.cmd file for later tests, multiple calls of that function within a
target would result in overwrites of previous values and effectively
render the command line test meaningless, resulting in flip-flop
behaviour.
Produce an error for targets with multiple calls to if_changed.
Three examples that would now be detected:
98f78525371b55ccd (x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations)
6a8dfe1cac5c591ae (microblaze: support U-BOOT image format)
684151a75bf25f5ae (sparc32: added U-Boot build target: uImage)
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <d...@gouders.net>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 447857ffaf6b..b0aadf23148e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2911,6 +2911,14 @@ sub process {
"Use of $flag is deprecated, please use
\`$replacement->{$flag} instead.\n" . $herecurr) if ($replacement->{$flag});
}
+ # Check for multiple calls of if_changed within a target in
Makefiles
+ if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) &&
+ ($prevline =~ /^[ +]\t\$\(call if_changed,/) &&
+ ($line =~ /^[ +]\t\$\(call if_changed,/)) {
+ ERROR("MULTIPLE_IF_CHANGED",
+ "Multiple calls of if_changed within a
target.\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for DT compatible documentation
if (defined $root &&
(($realfile =~ /\.dtsi?$/ && $line =~
/^\+\s*compatible\s*=\s*\"/) ||
--
2.17.1
