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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/Makefile.modpost | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/mod/modpost.c | 9 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst index 774a998dcf37..69fa48ee93d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst @@ -492,11 +492,8 @@ build. to the symbols from the kernel to check if all external symbols are defined. This is done in the MODPOST step. modpost obtains the symbols by reading Module.symvers from the kernel source - tree. If a Module.symvers file is present in the directory - where the external module is being built, this file will be - read too. During the MODPOST step, a new Module.symvers file - will be written containing all exported symbols that were not - defined in the kernel. + tree. During the MODPOST step, a new Module.symvers file will be + written containing all exported symbols from that external module. 6.3 Symbols From Another External Module ---------------------------------------- @@ -504,7 +501,7 @@ build. Sometimes, an external module uses exported symbols from another external module. Kbuild needs to have full knowledge of all symbols to avoid spitting out warnings about undefined - symbols. Three solutions exist for this situation. + symbols. Two solutions exist for this situation. NOTE: The method with a top-level kbuild file is recommended but may be impractical in certain situations. @@ -544,8 +541,8 @@ build. all symbols defined and not part of the kernel. Use "make" variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS - If it is impractical to copy Module.symvers from - another module, you can assign a space separated list + If it is impractical to add a top-level kbuild file, + you can assign a space separated list of files to KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS in your build file. These files will be loaded by modpost during the initialization of its symbol tables. 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) \ diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index d2a30a7b3f07..37fa1c65ee4d 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -2561,7 +2561,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct module *mod; struct buffer buf = { }; - char *kernel_read = NULL, *module_read = NULL; + char *kernel_read = NULL; char *dump_write = NULL, *files_source = NULL; int opt; int err; @@ -2569,13 +2569,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) struct ext_sym_list *extsym_iter; struct ext_sym_list *extsym_start = NULL; - while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "i:I:e:mnsT:o:awEd")) != -1) { + while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "i:e:mnsT:o:awEd")) != -1) { switch (opt) { case 'i': kernel_read = optarg; - break; - case 'I': - module_read = optarg; external_module = 1; break; case 'e': @@ -2620,8 +2617,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) if (kernel_read) read_dump(kernel_read, 1); - if (module_read) - read_dump(module_read, 0); while (extsym_start) { read_dump(extsym_start->file, 0); extsym_iter = extsym_start->next; |