On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 6:29 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There was a request to preprocess the module linker script like we > do for the vmlinux one. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/512) > > The difference between vmlinux.lds and module.lds is that the latter > is needed for external module builds, thus must be cleaned up by > 'make mrproper' instead of 'make clean'. Also, it must be created > by 'make modules_prepare'. > > You cannot put it in arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/, which is cleaned up by > 'make clean'. I moved arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/module.lds to > arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm/module.lds.h, which is included from > scripts/module.lds.S. > > scripts/module.lds is fine because 'make clean' keeps all the > build artifacts under scripts/. > > You can add arch-specific sections in <asm/module.lds.h>. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> > arch/m68k/Makefile | 1 - > .../{kernel/module.lds => include/asm/module.lds.h} | 0 Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
