[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/5] kbuild: use $(call cmd, ) rather than $(call if_changed, ) where possible

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 14:33 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> These build commands are constant (mostly, just concatenating
> images,
> >> or just copying).  No need to use $(call if_changed,...) for them.
> >
> >
> > I disagree, since I believe this change means that if someone /does/ change
> > the command in the future (e.g. to replace it with more complex processing,
> > or add additional dependencies), then the Makefile will/may not
> > automatically rebuild those targets, which is the entire point of using
> > if_changed, and is a huge benefit of using Kbuild.
> 
> I do not a strong opinion about this, so
> I will drop 3/5 and submit v2.

I think the same logic applies to that part of the change in patch 2 as
well.

Ian.