The rule that falls back to the long regex list is wrong: it is just running again the same loop it did before. change it to look at the "others" table. That slows the processing speed, but provides a better list of undefined symbols. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- To mailbombing on a large number of people, only mailing lists were C/C on the cover. See [PATCH 0/2] at: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1632994565.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx/ scripts/get_abi.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/get_abi.pl b/scripts/get_abi.pl index d32dcd7cca5d..2f3674bb3c9e 100755 --- a/scripts/get_abi.pl +++ b/scripts/get_abi.pl @@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ sub check_file($$) } if ($leave ne "others") { - my @expr = @{$leaf{$leave}->{expr}}; + my @expr = @{$leaf{"others"}->{expr}}; for (my $i = 0; $i < @names; $i++) { foreach my $re (@expr) { print STDERR "$names[$i] =~ /^$re\$/\n" if ($debug && $dbg_undefined); -- 2.31.1