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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2020-05-24 17:42:15 +0200
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2020-05-28 20:08:49 +0200
commite9e81b634303b215e83beced03f04f02f7893442 (patch)
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parentkbuild: make modules.order rule consistent with built-in.a (diff)
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kbuild: disallow multi-word in M= or KBUILD_EXTMOD
$(firstword ...) in scripts/Makefile.modpost was added by commit 3f3fd3c05585 ("[PATCH] kbuild: allow multi-word $M in Makefile.modpost") to build multiple external module directories. It was a solution to resolve symbol dependencies when an external module depends on another external module. Commit 0d96fb20b7ed ("kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS") introduced another solution by passing symbol info via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS, then broke the multi-word M= support. include $(if $(wildcard $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild), \ $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Makefile) ... does not work if KBUILD_EXTMOD contains multiple words. This feature has been broken for more than a decade. Remove the bitrotten code, and stop parsing if M or KBUILD_EXTMOD contains multiple words. As Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst explains, if your module depends on another one, there are two solutions: - add a common top-level Kbuild file - use KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/Makefile.modpost')
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile.modpost2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 957eed6a17a5..b79bf0e30d32 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ include include/config/auto.conf
include scripts/Kbuild.include
kernelsymfile := $(objtree)/Module.symvers
-modulesymfile := $(firstword $(KBUILD_EXTMOD))/Module.symvers
+modulesymfile := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers
MODPOST = scripts/mod/modpost \
$(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),-m) \