The directories for objdump is created by the code
a few lines below:
[ ! -d "$OBJDIFFD/$dn" ] && mkdir -p "$OBJDIFFD/$dn"
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Masahiro Yamadaauthored and Michal Marekcommited 2014-06-10 14:59:33 +02:00
This commit is a minor refactoring.
Temporary files for objdiff are stored in .tmp_objdiff directory
which is located at the top directory.
To get the path to this directory,
SRCTREE=`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`
TMPD=$SRCTREE/.tmp_objdiff
seems easier to understand than
GIT_DIR=`git rev-parse --git-dir`
TMPD=${GIT_DIR%git}tmp_objdiff
Besides, it is not always necessary to create .tmp_objdiff dicrectory.
It should be created only for "record" command.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Masahiro Yamadaauthored and Michal Marekcommited 2014-06-10 14:59:33 +02:00
objdiff is useful when doing large code cleanups. For example, when
removing checkpatch warnings and errors from new drivers in the staging
tree.
objdiff can be used in conjunction with a git rebase to confirm that
each commit made no changes to the resulting object code. It has the
same return values as diff(1).
This was written specifically to support adding the skein and threefish
cryto drivers to the staging tree. I needed a programmatic way to
confirm that commits changing >90% of the lines didn't inadvertently
change the code.
Temporary files (objdump output) are stored in
/path/to/linux/.tmp_objdiff
'make mrproper' will remove this directory.
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Jason Cooperauthored and Michal Marekcommited 2014-04-08 16:41:44 +02:00
Masahiro Yamada
authored and
Michal Marek
commited 
Jason Cooper
authored and