kbuild: move .vmlinux.objs rule to Makefile.modpost

.vmlinux.objs is used by modpost, so scripts/Makefile.modpost is
a better place to generate it.

It is used only when CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y. It should be guarded
by "ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS".

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 8d982574145a..161bca64e8aa 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@ cleanup()
 	rm -f System.map
 	rm -f vmlinux
 	rm -f vmlinux.map
-	rm -f .vmlinux.objs
 	rm -f .vmlinux.export.c
 }
 
@@ -218,23 +217,6 @@ fi
 #link vmlinux.o
 ${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o"
 
-# Generate the list of in-tree objects in vmlinux
-#
-# This is used to retrieve symbol versions generated by genksyms.
-for f in ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS} ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS}; do
-	case ${f} in
-	*libgcc.a)
-		# Some architectures do '$(CC) --print-libgcc-file-name' to
-		# borrow libgcc.a from the toolchain.
-		# There is no EXPORT_SYMBOL in external objects. Ignore this.
-		;;
-	*.a)
-		${AR} t ${f} ;;
-	*)
-		echo ${f} ;;
-	esac
-done > .vmlinux.objs
-
 # modpost vmlinux.o to check for section mismatches
 ${MAKE} -f "${srctree}/scripts/Makefile.modpost" MODPOST_VMLINUX=1