Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: modversions for exported asm symbols

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On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 15:19:59 +0100
Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2016-10-31 12:14, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > +# This is convoluted. The .S file must first be preprocessed to run guards and
> > +# expand names, then the resulting exports must be constructed into plain
> > +# EXPORT_SYMBOL(symbol); to build our dummy C file, and that gets preprocessed
> > +# to make the genksyms input.
> >  #
> >  # These mirror gensymtypes_c and co above, keep them in synch.
> >  cmd_gensymtypes_S =                                                         \
> >      (echo "\#include <linux/kernel.h>" ;                                    \
> >       echo "\#include <asm/asm-prototypes.h>" ;                              \
> > -     grep EXPORT_SYMBOL $< | sed 's/$$/;/' ) |                              \
> > +    $(CPP) $(a_flags) $< |                                                  \
> > +     grep ^___EXPORT_SYMBOL |                                               \
> > +     sed 's/___EXPORT_SYMBOL \([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\),.*/EXPORT_SYMBOL(\1);/' ) |  \  
> 
> Is this sed pass necessary? Just add -D__GENKSYMS__ also to the first
> cpp run and EXPORT_SYMBOL will stay intact.

I can't see how it would work if asm-generic/export.h doesn't have any
tests for GENKSYMS.

> Anyway, I'm going to merge your patch 2/2 now.

Okay. We should come to some resolution of the preprocessing issue too.
I'm logging off for tonight, but if you want to tweak or redo the
incremental patch, feel free.

Thanks,
Nick
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