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

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Message-ID: <20240422204555.GB770800@dev-arch.thelio-3990X>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:45:55 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: buildtar: remove warning for the default case

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@...nel.org>

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@...nel.org>

> ---
> 
>  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
>