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authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-10-03 19:29:14 +0900
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-11-11 20:07:03 +0900
commit39808e451fdf30d20099a92e5185a0acb028d826 (patch)
tree8d527ecd64d4f181f7da81211e1348c609e1c9a2 /scripts/Makefile.modpost
parent1747269ab016b49650c952099b0ca096ed5c06f1 (diff)
downloadlinux-39808e451fdf30d20099a92e5185a0acb028d826.tar.bz2
kbuild: do not read $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers
Since commit 040fcc819a2e ("kbuild: improved modversioning support for external modules"), the external module build reads Module.symvers in the directory of the module itself, then dumps symbols back into it. It accumulates stale symbols in the file when you build an external module incrementally. The idea behind it was, as the commit log explained, you can copy Modules.symvers from one module to another when you need to pass symbol information between two modules. However, the manual copy of the file sounds questionable to me, and containing stale symbols is a downside. Some time later, commit 0d96fb20b7ed ("kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS") introduced a saner approach. So, this commit removes the former one. Going forward, the external module build dumps symbols into Module.symvers to be carried via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, but never reads it automatically. With the -I option removed, there is no one to set the external_module flag unless KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS is passed. Now the -i option does it instead. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/Makefile.modpost')
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diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 13842693c143..20359c7887b3 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ MODPOST = scripts/mod/modpost \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m) \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL),-a) \
$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-i,-o) $(kernelsymfile) \
- $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-I $(modulesymfile)) \
$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(addprefix -e ,$(KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS))) \
$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),-o $(modulesymfile)) \
$(if $(CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY),,-E) \