Re: [Scst-devel] generate-kernel-patch autodownload kernel tarball

[Bart V. A. <bva...@ac...>]

On 11/20/18 7:02 AM, Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
> As I'm adjusting to use the new 3.3.x codebase, I'm (re)noticing the 
> following issue with generate-kernel-patch:
> 
> touch: cannot touch 'linux-4.9.137/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/*': No such file 
> or directory
> mv: cannot stat 'linux-4.9.137/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/*': No such file or 
> directory
> diff: qla2xxx-orig/4.9.137/Makefile: No such file or directory
> 
> And the resulting patch is broken. We used to work around this with a 
> separate wrapper script.
> 
> When we manually place ~/software/downloads/linux-4.9.137.tar.xz there 
> are no errors and the resulting patch seems fine, as in the kernel builds.
> 
> Something along these lines seems to resolve the issue, though I'm not 
> sure if it's the correct approach:
> 
> --- ./scst-3.3.x-orig/scripts/generate-kernel-patch    2018-11-20 
> 16:00:36.168956893 +0100
> +++ ./scst-3.3.x/scripts/generate-kernel-patch    2018-11-20 
> 15:59:17.628952224 +0100
> @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ if [ "${multiple_patches}" = "true" ]; t
>     fi
>   fi
> 
> +download_kernel "${kver}" || exit $?
> 
>   ####################
>   # Patch Generation #

Hi Pascal,

This is not a regression but a longstanding issue. Anyway, thanks for 
the patch. It has been applied on the 3.3 and trunk branches.

Bart.